Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT) Gridded Data Products

Type Article
Date 2013-04-04
Language English
Author(s) Sabine C. L.1, Hankin S.1, Koyuk H.1, 2, Bakker D. C. E.3, Pfeil B.4, 5, 6, Olsen A.7, 8, Metzl N.9, Kozyr A.10, Fassbender A.1, 20, Manke A.1, 2, Malczyk J.11, Akl J.12, 13, Alin S. R.1, Bellerby R. G. J.4, 14, 48, Borges A.15, Boutin J.9, Brown P. J.3, 16, Cai W. -J.17, Chavez F. P.18, Chen A.19, Cosca C.1, Feely R. A.1, Gonzalez-Davila M.21, Goyet C.22, Hardman-Mountford N.23, 49, Heinze C.4, 5, 8, 14, Hoppema M.24, Hunt C. W.25, Hydes D.26, Ishii M.27, Johannessen T.4, 5, Key R. M.28, Koertzinger A.29, Landschuetzer P.3, Lauvset S. K.4, 5, Lefevre N.9, Lenton A.13, Lourantou A.9, Merlivat L.9, Midorikawa T.30, Mintrop L.31, Miyazaki C.32, Murata A.33, Nakadate A.34, Nakano Y.33, Nakaoka S.35, Nojiri Y.35, Omar A. M.8, 14, Padin X. A.36, Park G. -H.37, Paterson K.12, 13, Perez F.F.36, Pierrot D.37, Poisson A.22, Rios A. F.36, Salisbury J.25, Santana-Casiano J. M.21, Sarma V. V. S. S.38, Schlitzer R.24, Schneider B.39, Schuster U.3, Sieger R.24, Skjelvan I.4, 5, 14, Steinhoff T.29, Suzuki T.40, Takahashi T.41, Tedesco K.42, 50, Telszewski M.43, 50, Thomas H.44, Tilbrook B.12, 13, 45, Vandemark D.25, Veness T.13, Watson A. J.3, Weiss R.46, Wong C. S.47, Yoshikawa-Inoue H.33
Affiliation(s) 1 : NOAA, Pacific Marine Environm Lab, Seattle, WA 98115 USA.
2 : Univ Washington, Joint Inst Study Atmosphere & Oceans, Seattle, WA 98195 USA.
3 : Univ E Anglia, Sch Environm Sci, Norwich NR4 7TJ, Norfolk, England.
4 : Univ Bergen, Inst Geophys, Bergen, Norway.
5 : Bjerknes Ctr Climate Res, Bergen, Norway.
6 : Univ Bremen, PANGAEA Data Publisher Earth & Environm Sci, D-28359 Bremen, Germany.
7 : Uni Bjerknes Ctr, Bergen, Norway.
8 : Inst Marine Res, N-5024 Bergen, Norway.
9 : Univ Paris 06, LOCEAN IPSL, Paris, France.
10 : Carbon Dioxide Informat Anal Ctr, Oak Ridge, TN USA.
11 : Yale Univ, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Jetz Lab, New Haven, CT USA.
12 : CSIRO Wealth Oceans Flagship, Hobart, Tas, Australia.
13 : Ctr Australian Weather & Climate Res, Hobart, Tas, Australia.
14 : Uni Res AS, Bergen, Norway.
15 : Univ Liege, Inst Phys, Chem Oceanog Unit, Liege, Belgium.
16 : British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge CB3 0ET, England.
17 : Univ Georgia, Dept Marine Sci, Athens, GA 30602 USA.
18 : Monterey Bay Aquarium Res Inst, Moss Landing, CA USA.
19 : Natl Sun Yat Sen Univ, Inst Marine Geol & Chem, Kaohsiung 80424, Taiwan.
20 : Univ Washington, Sch Oceanog, Seattle, WA 98195 USA.
21 : Univ Las Palmas Gran Canaria, Fac Ciencias Mar, Las Palmas Gran Canaria, Spain.
22 : Univ Perpignan, Inst Modelisat & Anal Geoenvironm & Sante, F-66025 Perpignan, France.
23 : CSIRO, Marine & Atmospher Res, Wembley, WA, Australia.
24 : Alfred Wegener Inst Polar & Marine Res, Bremerhaven, Germany.
25 : Univ New Hampshire, Ocean Proc Anal Lab, Durham, NH 03824 USA.
26 : Natl Oceanog Ctr, Southampton, Hants, England.
27 : Japan Meteorol Agcy, Meteorol Res Inst, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
28 : Princeton Univ, Atmospher & Ocean Sci, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA.
29 : Helmholtz Ctr Ocean Res, GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany.
30 : Nagasaki Marine Observ, Nagasaki, Japan.
31 : MARIANDA, Kiel, Germany.
32 : Hokkaido Univ, Environm Earth Sci, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060, Japan.
33 : Japan Agcy Marine Earth Sci & Technol, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 2370061, Japan.
34 : Japan Meteorol Agcy, Global Environm & Marine Dept, Marine Div, Tokyo, Japan.
35 : Natl Inst Environm Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
36 : CSIC, Inst Invest Marinas Vigo, Vigo, Spain.
37 : Univ Miami, Rosenstiel Sch Marine & Atmospher Sci, Cooperat Inst Marine & Atmospher Studies, Miami, FL 33149 USA.
38 : Natl Inst Oceanog, Reg Ctr, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.
39 : Leibnitz Res Inst Balt Sea Res, Warnemunde, Germany.
40 : Japan Hydrog Assoc, Marine Informat Res Ctr, Tokyo, Japan.
41 : Lamont Doherty Earth Observ, Palisades, NY USA.
42 : IOCCP, Silver Spring, MD USA.
43 : Polish Acad Sci, Inst Oceanol, IOCCP, Sopot, Poland.
44 : Dalhousie Univ, Dept Oceanog, Halifax, NS, Canada.
45 : Antarctic Climate & Ecosyst Cooperat Res Ctr, Hobart, Tas, Australia.
46 : Univ Calif San Diego, Scripps Inst Oceanog, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA.
47 : Inst Ocean Sci, Sidney, BC V8L 4B2, Canada.
48 : Norwegian Inst Water Res, Bergen, Norway.
49 : Plymouth Marine Lab, Plymouth, Devon, England.
50 : UNESCO, Intergovt Oceanog Commiss, IOCCP, Paris, France.
Source Earth System Science Data (1866-3508) (Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh), 2013-04-04 , Vol. 5 , N. 1 , P. 145-153
DOI 10.5194/essd-5-145-2013
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Abstract 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.
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Sabine C. L., Hankin S., Koyuk H., Bakker D. C. E., Pfeil B., Olsen A., Metzl N., Kozyr A., Fassbender A., Manke A., Malczyk J., Akl J., Alin S. R., Bellerby R. G. J., Borges A., Boutin J., Brown P. J., Cai W. -J., Chavez F. P., Chen A., Cosca C., Feely R. A., Gonzalez-Davila M., Goyet C., Hardman-Mountford N., Heinze C., Hoppema M., Hunt C. W., Hydes D., Ishii M., Johannessen T., Key R. M., Koertzinger A., Landschuetzer P., Lauvset S. K., 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 A. M., Padin X. A., Park G. -H., Paterson K., Perez F.F., Pierrot D., Poisson A., Rios A. F., Salisbury J., Santana-Casiano J. M., Sarma V. V. S. S., Schlitzer R., Schneider B., Schuster U., Sieger R., Skjelvan I., Steinhoff T., Suzuki T., Takahashi T., Tedesco K., Telszewski M., Thomas H., Tilbrook B., Vandemark D., Veness T., Watson A. J., Weiss R., Wong C. S., Yoshikawa-Inoue H. (2013). Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT) Gridded Data Products. Earth System Science Data, 5(1), 145-153. Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-5-145-2013 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00141/25178/