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Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT) gridded data products

  • C. L. Sabine
  • , S. Hankin
  • , H. Koyuk
  • , D. C.E. Bakker
  • , B. Pfeil
  • , A. Olsen
  • , N. Metzl
  • , A. Kozyr
  • , A. Fassbender
  • , A. Manke
  • , J. Malczyk
  • , J. Akl
  • , S. R. Alin
  • , R. G.J. Bellerby
  • , A. Borges
  • , J. Boutin
  • , P. J. Brown
  • , W. J. Cai
  • , F. P. Chavez
  • , A. Chen
  • C. Cosca, R. A. Feely, M. González-Dávila, C. Goyet, N. Hardman-Mountford, C. Heinze, M. Hoppema, C. W. Hunt, D. Hydes, M. Ishii, T. Johannessen, R. M. Key, A. Körtzinger, P. Landschützer, S. K. Lauvset, N. Lefèvre, A. Lenton, A. Lourantou, L. Merlivat, T. Midorikawa, L. Mintrop, C. Miyazaki, A. Murata, A. Nakadate, Y. Nakano, S. Nakaoka, Y. Nojiri, A. M. Omar, X. A. Padin, G. H. Park, K. Paterson, F. F. Perez, D. Pierrot, A. Poisson, A. F. Ríos, J. Salisbury, J. M. Santana-Casiano, V. V.S. S. Sarma, R. Schlitzer, B. Schneider, U. Schuster, R. Sieger, I. Skjelvan, T. Steinhoff, T. Suzuki, T. Takahashi, K. Tedesco, M. Telszewski, H. Thomas, B. Tilbrook, D. Vandemark, T. Veness, A. J. Watson, R. Weiss, C. S. Wong, H. Yoshikawa-Inoue
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  • University of Washington
  • University of East Anglia
  • University of Bergen
  • Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
  • University of Bremen
  • Institute of Marine Research
  • Sorbonne Université
  • Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
  • Yale University
  • CSIRO
  • UNI RESEARCH AS
  • Norwegian Institute for Water Research
  • University of Liege
  • British Antarctic Survey
  • University of Georgia
  • Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
  • Sun Yat-Sen University
  • University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  • Université de Perpignan
  • Plymouth Marine Laboratory
  • Alfred Wegener Institute - Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
  • University of New Hampshire
  • National Oceanography Centre
  • Japan Meteorological Agency
  • Princeton University
  • Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
  • Nagasaki Marine Observatory
  • MARIANDA
  • Hokkaido University
  • Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
  • National Institute for Environmental Studies of Japan
  • CSIC - Marine Research Institute
  • University of Miami
  • CSIR - National Institute of Oceanography
  • Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
  • Japan Hydrographic Association
  • Columbia University
  • International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project (IOCCP)
  • Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO
  • Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences
  • Dalhousie University
  • and Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre
  • University of California at San Diego
  • Fisheries and Oceans Canada

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Abstract

As a response to public demand for a well-documented, quality controlled, publically available, global surface ocean carbon dioxide (CO2) data set, the international marine carbon science community developed the Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT). The first SOCAT product is a collection of 6.3 million quality controlled surface CO2 data from the global oceans and coastal seas, spanning four decades (1968-2007). The SOCAT gridded data presented here is the second data product to come from the SOCAT project. Recognizing that some groups may have trouble working with millions of measurements, the SOCAT gridded product was generated to provide a robust, regularly spaced CO2 fugacity (fCO2) product with minimal spatial and temporal interpolation, which should be easier to work with for many applications. Gridded SOCAT is rich with information that has not been fully explored yet (e.g., regional differences in the seasonal cycles), but also contains biases and limitations that the user needs to recognize and address (e.g., local influences on values in some coastal regions).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)145-153
Number of pages9
JournalEarth System Science Data
Volume5
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 4 2013
Externally publishedYes

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