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.
National Center for Atmospheric Research Staff (Eds). Last modified 21 Aug 2014. "The Climate Data Guide: SOCAT: Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas ." Retrieved from https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data/socat-surface-ocean-co2-atlas.
Funding: NSF | National Science Foundation
Based at: NCAR | National Center for Atmospheric Research
A Project of: Climate Analysis Section in Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory
Created by: Climate Data Guide PIs and Staff