Credits

The Surface Ocean CO₂ Atlas is a synthesis activity by the international marine carbon research community. More than 100 data providers, quality controllers, data managers and programmers contribute to SOCAT.

Contributors to the newest SOCAT version (version 2026) can be found here.
Contributors for previous SOCAT versions are found here: V2025, V2024, V2023, V2022, V2021, V2020, V2019, V6, V5, V4, V3, V2, V1

University of East Anglia, UK
University of Bergen, Norway
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA
Live Access Server

Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, USA
University of Washington, USA
Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Norway

Ocean Data View
National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand
NORCE Research, Norway
Laboratoire d’Océanographie et du Climat: Expérimentations et Approches Numériques, France

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia

IOC UNESCO
International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project
Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study

GOOS Ocean
National Science Foundation, USA
European Union
Natural Environment Research Coucil, UK
Ministry of the Environment, Japan
Integrated Carbon Observing System

Integrated Marine Observing System, Australia
Alfred-Wegner Institute, Germany




Marine Institute, Ireland
Cooperative Institute for Research In Environmental Sciences, USA
GEOMAR, Germany

Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, USA
Flanders Marine Institute, Belgium

Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde, Germany
Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, USA
Co-funded by the EU