SOCAT (Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas) represents an effort to "provide a comprehensive, publicly available, regularly updated, global data set of marine surface CO2, which had been subject to quality control (QC)." The data sets are comprised of observations (ship track) and gridded data.
Key Strengths:
- Quality controlled
Years of Record
1970/01 to 2007/12
Formats
Timestep
Climatology | Monthly | Annual
Domain
Spatial Resolution
0.25x0.25 | 1x1
Ocean or Land
Ocean Only
Vertical Levels
Data Set DOIs
Data Access: Please Cite data sources, following the data providers' instructions.
- Bakker, D.C.C. and Coauthors, 2014: An update to the Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT version 2), Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 6, 69-90.
- Pfeil, B. and Coauthors, 2013: A uniform, quality controlled Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT), Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 5, 125-143.
- Sabine, C.L. and Coauthors, 2013: Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT) gridded data products, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 5, 145-153.
- Pfeil, B., A. Olsen, D.C.E. Bakker, et al. (2011) A uniform, quality controlled, Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT).: Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 5, 125-143, 2013
- Sabine, S.L. et al (2012): Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT) gridded data products, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 5, 145-153
