OceanDepths: A Global Dataset of Paired Subsurface and Surface Ocean Observations

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arXiv:2608.16373v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite comprising over 70\% of its surface, the world's oceans are critically underobserved compared to the land surface or the atmosphere.Understanding the global ocean requires jointly observing its surface and subsurface structure, yet no standardized, high-resolution dataset couples satellite surface fields to co-located \emph{in situ} depth profiles in an AI-ready format.Existing resources either consist of model-reconstructed gridded produ