SOCAT Version 1.5

Before using SOCAT data products, please read the Data Use Statement

Data Access

SOCAT version 1.5 data products are available in a variety of formats:

	Interactive viewers Use the Interactive Viewers from the Live Access Server to explore and download gridded or non-gridded data following selected criteria (region, year, platform, etc.). Making maps and property plots is straight forward and a good way to to get a quick overview of the data collection.
	Interactive Data Set Viewer
	Interactive Gridded Data Viewer
	Synthesis and gridded files in text format Global and regional synthesis files, as well as gridded files, are available as text files and netcdf, respectively, via the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Matlab code is available for reading these text files. Synthesis files Main source (NCEI) GEOMAR Mirror (Zipped) All data 1.3 Gb 166 Mb Coastal data 507 Mb 66 Mb Indian Ocean data 37 Mb 4 Mb North Atlantic data 174 Mb 25 Mb North Pacific data 40 Mb 7 Mb Southern Ocean data 282 Mb 34 Mb Tropical Atlantic data 78 Mb 11 Mb Tropical Pacific data 146 Mb 21 Mb Instructions for reading synthesis files 179 Kb Matlab code for reading synthesis files 10.6 Kb Gridded files Main source (NCEI) BCDC Mirror (Zipped) Monthly Gridded 1.2 Gb 6 Mb Monthly Clim Gridded 24 Mb 2 Mb Yearly Gridded 57 Mb 2 Mb Decadal Gridded 6 Mb 1 Mb Quarter-degree gridded monthly coastal 153 Mb 37 Mb
	Individual data sets in text format Individual data set files are archived in Pangaea and can be downloaded in text format. Text files Main source (Pangaea) GEOMAR Mirror All data sets 174 Mb 174 Mb

Description

For a detailed description of data products, file formats and tools, see:

Credits

For SOCAT V1.5 we would like to thank all SOCAT QC-ers, early testers, meeting participants, and data contributors:

Are Olsen, Dorothee Bakker, Benjamin Pfeil, Chris Sabine, Nicolas Metzl, Steve Hankin, Heather Koyuk, Alexander Kozyr, Jeremy Malczyk, Anshley Manke, John Akl, Simone Alin, Donald Atwood, Milena Begovic, Richard Bellerby , Jaqueline Boutin, Alberto Borges, Peter Brown, Francisco Chavez, Arthur Chen, Cathy Cosca, Yves Dandonneau, Richard Feely, Melchor González-Dávila, Catherine Goyet , Nick Hardman-Mountford, Inoue Hisayuki, Christoph Heinze, Maria Hood, Mario Hoppema, Chris Hunt, David Hydes, Masao Ishii, Truls Johannessen, Steve Jones, Robert M. Key, Arne Körtzinger, Peter Landschützer, Siv Lauvset, Nathalie Lefèvre, Andrew Lenton, Anna Lourantou, Liliane Merlivat , Takashi Midorikawa , Ludger Mintrop , Chihiro Miyazaki, Akihiko Murata, Akira Nakadate , Yoshiyuki Nakano, Shinichiro Nakaoka, Yukihiro Nojiri, Abdir Omar, Antonio Padin, Geun-Ha Park, Kristina Paterson, Fiz Perez , Denis Pierrot, Alan Poisson , Aida Rios, Joe Salisbury, Magdalena Santana-Casiano, Vedula V.S.S. Sarma, Reiner Schlitzer, Bernd Schneider, Ute Schuster, Rainer Sieger, Ingunn Skjelvan, Tobias Steinhoff, Toru Suzuki, Taro Takahashi, Kathy Tedesco, Maciej Telszewski, Helmuth Thomas, Bronte Tilbrook, Jerry Tjiputra, Doug Vandemark , Tony Veness, Douglas Wallace, Rik Wanninkhof, Andrew Watson, Cai Wei-Jun, Ray Weiss and C. S. Wong.

Groups

SOCAT quality control is carried out by regional working groups with a global group for coordination.
The groups for SOCAT Version 1.5 can be found here.