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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
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
| longitude / latitude | Grid cell centroid (degrees, WGS84) |
| sediment_thickness | Total sediment thickness (unknown) |
| geometry | Point 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.