Sabine_2013_SOCAT_gridded_data.pdf (2.41 MB)
Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT) gridded data products
journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-17, 20:41 authored by Sabine, CL, Hankin, S, Koyuk, H, Bakker, DCE, Pfeil, B, Olsen, A, Metzl, N, Kozyr, A, Fassbender, A, Manke, A, Malczyk, J, Akl, J, Alin, SR, Bellerby, RGJ, Borges, A, Boutin, J, Brown, PJ, Cai, W-J, Chavez, FP, Chen, A, Cosca, C, Feely, RA, Gonzalez-Davila, M, Goyet, C, Hardman-Mountford, N, Heinze, C, Hoppema, M, Hunt, CW, Hydes, D, Ishii, M, Johannessen, T, Key, RM, Kortzinger, A, Landschutzer, P, Lauvset, SK, Lefevre, N, Lenton, A, Lourantou, A, Merlivat, L, Midorikawa, T, Mintrop, L, Miyazaki, C, Murata, A, Nakadate, A, Nakano, Y, Nakaoka, S, Nojiri, Y, Omar, AM, Padin, XA, Park, G-H, Paterson, K, Perez, FF, Pierrot, D, Poisson, A, Rios, AF, Salisbury, J, Santana-Casiano, JM, Sarma, VVSS, Schlitzer, R, Schneider, B, Schuster, U, Sieger, R, Skjelvan, I, Steinhoff, T, Suzuki, T, Takahashi, T, Tedesco, K, Telszewski, M, Thomas, H, Tilbrook, BD, Vandemark, D, Veness, T, Watson, AJ, Weiss, R, Wong, CS, Yoshikawa-Inoue, HAs 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).
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Publication title
Earth System Science DataVolume
5Pagination
145-153ISSN
1866-3516Department/School
Institute for Marine and Antarctic StudiesPublisher
Copernicus GmbHPlace of publication
GermanyRights statement
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