Publication Date:
2015-03-19
Description:
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).
Repository Name:
EPIC Alfred Wegener Institut
Type:
Article
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isiRev
Format:
application/pdf
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