SOCAT Version 2

Before using SOCAT data products, please read the Fair 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 (not specifically for version 2)
	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
	All data	1.6 Gb
	Arctic Data	48.2 Mb
	Coastal Data	604 Mb
	Indian Ocean Data	34.9 Mb
	North Atlantic Data	143 Mb
	North Pacific Data	57.1 Mb
	Southern Ocean Data	449 Mb
	Tropical Atlantic Data	70.1 Mb
	Tropical Pacific Data	206 Mb
	Instruction for reading synthesis files Matlab code for reading synthesis files	252 Kb 15.8 Kb
	Gridded files (only includes fCO₂ _rec)
	Monthly gridded	1.2 Gb
	Monthly clim gridded	41.5 Mb
	Yearly gridded	125 Mb
	Decadal gridded	11.9 Mb
	Quarter-degree gridded monthly coastal	169 Mb
	Matlab code for reading gridded files	4.1 Kb
	Ocean Data View format The synthesis and gridded files are available in Ocean Data View (ODV) format from the ODV website. ODV SOCAT Collection
	Individual data sets in text format Individual data set files are archived in Pangaea and can be downloaded in text format from there.
	Download all SOCAT V2 data sets	295 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.