SOCAT Version 3

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

Data Access

SOCAT version 3 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 2.3 Gb 331 Mb Arctic data 102 Mb 15 Mb Coastal data 892 Mb 127 Mb Indian Ocean data 41 Mb 4 Mb North Atlantic data 226 Mb 35 Mb North Pacific data 78 Mb 13 Mb Southern Ocean data 594 Mb 83 Mb Tropical Atlantic data 94 Mb 15 Mb Tropical Pacific data 274 Mb 41 Mb Flag E data 39 Mb 5 Mb Instructions for reading synthesis files 259 Kb Matlab code for reading synthesis files 19 Kb Gridded files Main source (NCEI) BCDC Mirror (Zipped) Monthly Gridded 1.4 Gb 10 Mb Yearly Gridded 134 Mb 4 Mb Decadal Gridded 15 Mb 1 Mb Quarter-degree gridded monthly coastal 163 Mb 74 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 488 Mb 488 Mb Metadata overview

Description

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

Recalculation

Recalculation in SOCAT V3 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 V3 we would like to thank all SOCAT data contributors, quality controllers and members of the automation team:

Dorothee C. E. Bakker, Benjamin Pfeil, Camilla S. Landa, Nicolas Metzl, Kevin M. O’Brien, Are Olsen, Karl Smith, Cathy Cosca, Sumiko Harasawa, Stephen D. Jones, Shin-ichiro Nakaoka, Yukihiro Nojiri, Ute Schuster, Tobias Steinhoff, Colm Sweeney, Taro Takahashi, Bronte Tilbrook, Chisato Wada, Rik Wanninkhof, Simone R. Alin, Carlos F. Balestrini, Leticia Barbero, Nicholas R. Bates, Alejandro A. Bianchi, Frédéric Bonou, Jacqueline Boutin, Yann Bozec, Eugene F. Burger, Wei-Jun Cai, Robert D. Castle, Liqi Chen, Melissa Chierici, Kim Currie, Wiley Evans, Charles Featherstone, Richard A. Feely, Agneta Fransson, Catherine Goyet, Naomi Greenwood, Luke Gregor, Steven Hankin, Nick J. Hardman-Mountford, Jérôme Harlay, Judith Hauck, Mario Hoppema, Matthew P. Humphreys, Christopher W. Hunt, Betty Huss, J. Severino P. Ibánhez, Truls Johannessen, Ralph Keeling, Vassilis Kitidis, Arne Körtzinger, Alex Kozyr, Evangelia Krasakopoulou, Akira Kuwata, Peter Landschützer, Siv K. Lauvset, Nathalie Lefèvre, Claire Lo Monaco, Ansley Manke, Jeremy T. Mathis, Liliane Merlivat, Frank J. Millero, Pedro M. S. Monteiro, David R. Munro, Akihiko Murata, Timothy Newberger, Abdirahman M. Omar, Tsuneo Ono, Kristina Paterson, David Pearce, Denis Pierrot, Lisa L. Robbins, Shu Saito, Joe Salisbury, Reiner Schlitzer, Bernd Schneider, Roland Schweitzer, Rainer Sieger, Ingunn Skjelvan, Kevin F. Sullivan, Stewart C. Sutherland, Adrienne J. Sutton, Kazuaki Tadokoro, Maciej Telszewski, Matthias Tuma, Steven M. A. C. van Heuven, Doug Vandemark, Brian Ward, Andrew J. Watson, and Suqing Xu.

Groups

SOCAT quality control is carried out by regional working groups with a global group for coordination.
The groups for SOCAT Version 3 can be found here.