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Quick Links GitHub Hugging Face LinkedIn X GlobSed — Global Ocean Sediment Thickness, Modernized 6,251,924 points across the world's oceans and marginal seas, at native 5' x 5' resolution. Modernized from CEED's GlobSed NetCDF grid into a single GeoParquet file for AI, API, and GIS use. Contents geoparquet/globsed_sediment_thickness.parquet — point-based GeoParquet (EPSG:4326) metadata.json — provenance, citation, units… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/NoraResearchLab/globsed-sediment-thickness.

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GlobSed — Global Ocean Sediment Thickness, Modernized

6,251,924 points across the world's oceans and marginal seas, at native 5' x 5' resolution. Modernized from CEED's GlobSed NetCDF grid into a single GeoParquet file for AI, API, and GIS use.

Contents

  • geoparquet/globsed_sediment_thickness.parquet — point-based GeoParquet (EPSG:4326)
  • metadata.json — provenance, citation, units, value range, license note

Columns

ColumnDescription
longitude / latitudeGrid cell centroid (degrees, WGS84)
sediment_thicknessTotal sediment thickness (unknown)
geometryPoint geometry (WGS84)

Source & Citation

Straume, E.O., Gaina, C., Medvedev, S., Hochmuth, K., Gohl, K., Whittaker, J.M., et al. (2019). GlobSed: Updated total sediment thickness in the world's oceans. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GC008115

License

No explicit reuse license stated by the source (CEED / University of Oslo). Cite Straume et al. (2019) on use; confirm terms directly with CEED for redistribution beyond research/AI use.