SOCAT Version 2

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

Data Access

SOCAT version 2 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 1.6 Gb 216 Mb Arctic data 49 Mb 7 Mb Coastal data 605 Mb 83 Mb Indian Ocean data 35 Mb 4 Mb North Atlantic data 143 Mb 21 Mb North Pacific data 58 Mb 9 Mb Southern Ocean data 450 Mb 56 Mb Tropical Atlantic data 71 Mb 11 Mb Tropical Pacific data 207 Mb 29 Mb Instructions for reading synthesis files 253 Kb Matlab code for reading synthesis files 16 Kb Gridded files Main source (NCEI) BCDC Mirror (Zipped) Monthly Gridded 1.3 Gb 8 Mb Monthly Clim Gridded 42 Mb 2 Mb Yearly Gridded 125 Mb 3 Mb Decadal Gridded 12 Mb 1 Mb Quarter-degree gridded monthly coastal 170 Mb 67 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 308 Mb 308 Mb Metadata overview

Description

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

Recalculation

Recalculation in SOCAT V2 took place using Matlab codes by Are Olsen (University of Bergen/Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research). The Matlab codes can be obtained here.

Credits

For SOCAT V2 we would like to thank all SOCAT QC-ers, early testers, meeting participants and data contributors:

D. C. E. Bakker, B. Pfeil, K. Smith, S. Hankin, A. Olsen, S. R. Alin, C. Cosca, B. Hales, S. Harasawa, A. Kozyr, Y. Nojiri, K. M. O’Brien, U. Schuster, M. Telszewski, B. Tilbrook, C. Wada, J. Akl, L. Barbero, N. Bates, J. Boutin, W.-J. Cai, R. D. Castle, F. P. Chavez, L. Chen, M. Chierici, K. Currie, H. J. W. De Baar, W. Evans, R. A. Feely, A. Fransson, Z. Gao, N. Hardman-Mountford, M. Hoppema, W.-J. Huang, C. W. Hunt, B. Huss, T. Ichikawa, A. Jacobson, T. Johannessen, E. M. Jones, S. Jones, Sara Jutterstrøm, V. Kitidis, A. Körtzinger, P. Landsch?tzer, S. K. Lauvset, N. Lefèvre, A. B. Manke, J. T. Mathis, L. Merlivat, N. Metzl, P. Monteiro A. Murata, T. Newberger, T. Ono, G.-H. Park, K. Paterson, D. Pierrot, A. F. Ríos, C.L. Sabine, S. Saito, J. Salisbury, V. V. S. S. Sarma, R. Schlitzer, R. Sieger, I. Skjelvan, T. Steinhoff, K. Sullivan, S. C. Sutherland, T. Suzuki, A. J. Sutton,, C. Sweeney, T. Takahashi, J. Tjiputra, N. Tsurushima, S. M. A. C. van Heuven, D. Vandemark, P. Vlahos, D. W. R. Wallace, R. Wanninkhof and A. J. Watson.

Groups

SOCAT quality control is carried out by regional working groups with a global group for coordination.
The groups for SOCAT Version 2 can be found here.