Carbon cycle

Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT)

The Surface Ocean CO₂ Atlas (SOCAT) is a synthesis activity for quality-controlled, surface ocean fCO₂ (fugacity of carbon dioxide) observations by the international marine carbon research community (>100 contributors). It has over 20 million fCO₂ measurements.

Access to gridded data can be found here: https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/ocads/data/0173715.xml

Figure 1 from Bakker et al. (2016)

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Available formats:

.nc

.odv

.tsv

.txt

Published:

Published

Availability:

Public

Gridded:

Yes

Time range:

1957–2017

Spatial depth:

Surface

Spatial resolution:

Global 1° by 1° coastal 0.25° by 0.25°

Temporal climatology:

Data types:

Observations (raw)

Data temporal period:

Historical

Data temporal resolution:

Decadal

Annual

Monthly

Instantaneous

Spatial coverage:

Global

Variables:

fugacity of carbon dioxide

partial pressure of carbon dioxide

References:

Bakker, D et al. (2016). A multi-decade record of high quality fCO₂ data in version 3 of the Surface Ocean CO₂ Atlas (SOCAT). Earth System Science Data, 8, 383-413

Reference data

Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT)

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