Before using SOCAT data products, please read the Data Use Statement
Data Access
SOCAT version 5 data products are available in a variety of formats:
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Interactive viewers
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Synthesis and gridded files
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Synthesis files | Main source (NCEI) | GEOMAR Mirror (Zipped) |
All data | 3.5 Gb | 512 Mb |
Arctic data | 172 Mb | 25 Mb |
Coastal data | 1.5 Gb | 210 Mb |
Indian Ocean data | 47 Mb | 5 Mb |
North Atlantic data | 315 Mb | 50 Mb |
North Pacific data | 99 Mb | 16 Mb |
Southern Ocean data | 900 Mb | 132 Mb |
Tropical Atlantic data | 157 Mb | 25 Mb |
Tropical Pacific data | 355 Mb | 53 Mb |
Flag E data | 169 Mb | 25 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 | 13 Mb |
Yearly Gridded | 140 Mb | 4 Mb |
Decadal Gridded | 15 Mb | 2 Mb |
Quarter-degree gridded monthly coastal | 171 Mb | 83 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 | 628 Mb | 628 Mb |
Description
More description on SOCAT Version 5 can be found in the V5 release poster.
For a detailed description of data products, file formats and tools, see:
Recalculation
Recalculation in SOCAT V5 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 V5 we would like to thank all SOCAT data contributors, quality controllers, and members of the automation team:
Bakker, Dorothee C. E.; O’Brien, Kevin; Pfeil, Benjamin; Currie, Kim; Kozyr, Alex; Landa, Camilla S.; Lauvset, Siv K.; Metzl, Nicolas; Nakaoka, Shin-Ichiro; Nojiri, Yukihiro; Nonaka, Isao; Olsen, Are; Omar, Abdirahman M.; Pierrot, Denis; Saito, Shu; Smith, Karl; Sutton, Adrienne; Sullivan, Kevin; Tilbrook, Bronte; Wanninkhof, Rik; Akl, John; Alin, Simone R.; Barbero, Leticia; Barrera, Kira; Beaumont, Laurence; Becker, Meike; Bernard, Christophe; Bott, Randy; Byrne, Robert; Cai, Wei-Jun; Cosca Cathy; Cross, Jessica; Daly, Kendra L; Danguy, Théo; De Carlo, Eric; Dietrich, Colin; Feely, Richard A.; Fiedler, Björn; Glockzin, Michael; Gove, Matthew D.; Goyet, Catherine; Guillot, Antoine; Hales, Bruke; Hartman, Susan E.; Herndon, Julian; Hoppema, Mario; Humphreys, Matthew; Hunt, Christopher W.; Huss, Betty; Hydes, David; Ibanhez, Severino; Ishii, Masao; Johannessen, Truls; Jones, Stephen D.; Kitidis, Vassilis; Knorr, Paul O.; Körtzinger, Arne; Kosugi, Naohiro; Lee, Charity M.; Lefèvre, Nathalie; Lo Monaco, Claire; Liu, Xuewu; Maenner, Stacy M.; Manke, Ansley B.; Manzello, Derek; Mathis, Jeremy T.; Mickett, John; Millero, Frank J.; Monacci, Natalie; Monteiro, Pedro M. S.; Morell, Julio M.; Munro, David R.; Musielewicz, Sylvia; Neill, Craig; Newberger, Timothy; Newton, Jan A.; Noakes, Scott; Noh, Jae-Hoon; Ohman, Mark; Ólafsdóttir, Sólveig R.; Ólafsson, Jón S.; Osborne, John; Padín, X. Antonio; Rehder, Gregor; Reimer, Janet; Robbins, Lisa L.; Rutgersson, Anna; Sabine, Christopher L.; Salisbury, Joe; Sasano, Daisuke; Schlitzer, Reiner; Schuster, Ute; Send, Uwe; Sieger, Rainer; Skjelvan, Ingunn; Steinhoff, Tobias; Sutherland, Stewart C.; Sweeney, Colm; Takahashi, Taro; Telszewski, Maciej; Vandemark, Doug; Van Heuven, Steven; Wallace, Douglas W. R.; Woosley, Ryan J.; Wynn, Jonathan G.; and Yates, Kimberly.
Groups
SOCAT quality control is carried out by regional working groups with a global group for coordination.
The groups for SOCAT Version 5 can be found here.