World Ocean World Ocean The World Ocean or Global Ocean (colloquially the sea or the ocean) is the interconnected system of Earth's oceanic waters, and comprises the bulk of the hydrosphere, covering (70.8%) of Earth's surface, with a total volume of roughly . The unity and continuity of the World Ocean, with relatively free interchange among its parts, is of fundamental importance to oceanography. It is divided into a number of principal oceanic areas that are delimited by the continents and various oceanographic features: these divisions are the Atlantic Ocean, Arctic Ocean (sometimes considered a sea of the Atlantic), Indian Ocean, Pacific
World Ocean Circulation Experiment follows. Major elements of the WOCE Field Program This list, though not comprehensive, outlines a sampling of the most highly cited articles and books resulting from the WOCE. A. Ganachaud & C. Wunsch Eds. Gerold Siedler, John Gould & John Church D. Stammer, C. Wunsch, R. Giering, C. Eckert, P. Heimbach, J. Marotzke, A. Adcroft, C. N. Hill, J. Marshall A. Ganachaud A. Ganachaud, Carl Wunsch S. E. Wijffels, J. M. Toole, R. Davis World Ocean Circulation Experiment The World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) was a component of the international World Climate Research Program, and aimed to establish the role