SOCAT version 2019

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

Data Access

SOCAT version 2019 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 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 4.1 Gb 618Mb Arctic Data 227 Mb 33 Mb Coastal Data 1.7 Gb 262 Mb Indian Ocean Data 47 Mb 5 Mb North Atlantic 351 Mb 57 Mb North Pacific Data 115 Mb 19 Mb Southern Ocean Data 1.0 Gb 158 Mb Tropical Atlantic Data 175 Mb 28 Mb Tropical Pacific Data 393 Mb 60 Mb Flag E Data 262 Mb 38 Mb Instructions for reading synthesis files 260 Kb Matlab code for reading synthesis files 20 Kb Gridded files Main source (NCEI) GEOMAR Mirror (Zipped) Monthly gridded 3.5 Gb 31 Mb Yearly gridded 194 Mb 9 Mb Decadal gridded 20 Mb 3 Mb Quarter-degree gridded monthly coastal 412 Mb 189 Mb Matlab code for reading gridded files 7 Kb
	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) BCDC Mirror All data sets 2.63 Gb 2.63 Gb Metadata overview List of new and updated data sets
	Ocean Data View format The synthesis and gridded files are available in Ocean Data View (ODV) format from the ODV website. ODV SOCAT Collection

Description

More description on SOCAT version 2019 can be found in the version 2019 release poster.
For a detailed description of data products, file formats and tools, see:

Recalculation

Recalculation in SOCAT version 2019 took place using Ferret scripts, based on Matlab codes by Are Olsen (University of Bergen/Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research). The Matlab codes can be obtained here.

Credits

For SOCAT version 2019 we would like to thank all SOCAT data contributors, quality controllers, and members of the automation team:

Bakker, Dorothee C. E.; Lauvset, Siv K.; Wanninkhof, Rik; O’Brien, Kevin M.; Olsen, Are; Pfeil, Benjamin; Castaño-Primo, Rocío; Currie, Kim; Jones, Stephen; Karlsen, Maren K.; Kozyr, Alex; Metzl, Nicolas; Nakaoka, Shin-Ichiro; Pierrot, Denis; Smith, Karl; Sullivan, Kevin; Sutton, Adrienne; Sweeney, Colm; Takahashi, Taro; Telszewski, Maciej; Tilbrook, Bronte; Wada, Chisato; Akl, John; Alin, Simone R; Andersson, Andreas; Atamanchuk, Dariia; Becker, Meike; Benoit-Cattin-Breton, Alice; Burger, Eugene; Collins, Andrew; Corredor, Jorge; Cosca, Cathy; Cronin, Margot; Cross, Jessica; De Carlo, Eric; Feely, Richard A.; Gkritzalis, Thanos; Glockzin, Michael; Greenwood, Naomi; Gutekunst, Sören; Hartman, Susan E.; Herndon, Julian; Ho, David T.; Hunt, Christopher W.; Ibanhez, Severino; Johannessen, Truls; Kitidis, Vassilis; Lee, Charity M.; Lefèvre, Nathalie; Lo Monaco, Claire; Manke, Ansley B.; Mickett, John; Millero, Frank J.; Monacci, Natalie; Morell, Julio M.; Munro, David R.; Neill, Craig; Newberger, Timothy; Newton, Jan A.; Noh, Jae-Hoon; Nojiri, Yukihiro; Ohman, Mark; Ólafsdóttir, Sólveig Rósa; Omar, Abdirahman M.; Ono, Tsuneo; Papakyriakou, Tim; Park, Geun-Ha; Pearce, David J.; Plüddemann, Albert J.; Price, Nichole; Rehder, Gregor; Sakurai, Keizo; Salisbury, Joe; Schlitzer, Reiner; Send, Uwe; Skjelvan, Ingunn; Sutherland, Stewart C.; Tadokoro, Kazuaki; Tanhua, Toste; Tomlinson, Michael; Trull, Tom; Vandemark, Doug; Wallace, Douglas W. R.; Weller, Robert A.; Woosley, Ryan J.

Groups

SOCAT quality control is carried out by regional working groups with a global group for coordination.
The groups for SOCAT version 2019 can be found here.