Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT) gridded data products

Journal Article · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2013 · Earth System Science Data (ESSD)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-5-145-2013· OSTI ID:1089264

Sabine, Christopher ^[1]; Hankin, S. ^[2]; Koyuk, H ^[3]; Bakker, D C E ^[4]; Pfeil, B ^[5]; Olsen, A ^[6]; Metzl, N ^[7]; Kozyr, Alexander ^[8]; Fassbender, A ^[9]; Manke, A ^[10]; Malczyk, J ^[11]; Akl, J ^[12]; Alin, S R ^[10]; Bellerby, R G J ^[13]; Borges, A ^[14]; Boutin, J ^[7]; Brown, P J ^[4]; Cai, W-J ^[15]; Chavez, F P ^[16]; Chen, A ^[17] ; Cosa, C ^[10]; Feely, R A ^[10]; Gonzalez-Davila, M ^[18]; Goyet, C ^[19]; Hardman-Mountford, N ^[20]; Heinze, C ^[13]; Hoppema, M ^[21]; Hunt, C W ^[22]; Hydes, D ^[23]; Ishii, M ^[24]; Johannessen, T ^[13]; Key, R M ^[25]; Kortzinger, A ^[26]; Landschutzer, P ^[4]; Lauvset, S K ^[13]; Lefevre, N ^[27]; Lenton, A ^[28]; Lourantou, A ^[27]; Merlivat, L ^[27]; Midorikawa, T ^[29]; Mintrop, L ^[30]; Miyazaki, C ^[31]; Murata, A ^[32]; Nakadate, A ^[33]; Nakano, Y ^[32]; Nakaoka, S ^[34]; Nojiri, Y ^[35]

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1. NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
2. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
3. Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, University of Washington
4. School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
5. Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen
6. Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, UNIFOB AS, Bergen, Norway
7. Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, LOCEAN/IPSL, Paris, France
8. ORNL
9. School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
10. Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
11. Jetz Laboratory, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
12. CSIRO Wealth from Oceans Flagship, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
13. Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
14. University of Liege, Chemical Oceanography Unit, Institut de Physique, Liege, Belgium
15. Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia
16. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA
17. Institute of Marine Geology and Chemistry, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
18. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria,
19. Institut de Modélisation et d'Analyse en Géo-Environnement et Santé, Université de Perpignan
20. CSIRO, Marine and Atmospheric Research, Wembley, Western Australia, Australia
21. Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
22. Ocean Process Analysis Lab, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire
23. National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK
24. Japan Meteorological Agency, Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan
25. Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
26. GEOMAR, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany
27. Université Pierre et Marie Curie, LOCEAN/IPSL, Paris, France
28. Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
29. Nagasaki Marine Observatory, Nagasaki, Japan
30. MARIANDA, Kiel, Germany
31. Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan
32. Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan
33. Marine Division, Global Environment and Marine Department, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan
34. National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Tsukuba, Japan
35. National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan

A well documented, publicly available, global data set for surface ocean carbon dioxide (CO2) parameters has been called for by international groups for nearly two decades. The Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT) project was initiated by the international marine carbon science community in 2007 with the aim of providing a comprehensive, publicly available, regularly updated, global data set of marine surface CO2, which had been subject to quality control (QC). SOCAT version 1.5 was made public in September 2011 and holds 6.3 million quality controlled surface CO2 data from the global oceans and coastal seas, spanning four decades (1968 2007). The SOCAT gridded data 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 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, but also contains biases and limitations that the user needs to recognize and address.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1089264
• Journal Information: Earth System Science Data (ESSD), Vol. 5, Issue 1; ISSN 1866--3516
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

surface ocean carbon dioxide
SOCAT
gridded data