This version of analysis is based on Ishii and Kimoto (2009, JO) with the latest WOD09, GTSPP, GDAC Argo data bases as of 11 Jan. 2011. See http://atm-phys.nies.go.jp/~ism/pub/ProjD/doc/ for more details. Changes from version 6.9 are : 1) several minor bugs fixed, 2) climatology based on WOA05 were updated, and 3) XBT depth bias corrections were updated. ishii maish(at)mri-jma.go.jp March 7, 2012