SOCAT Version 4

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

Data Access

SOCAT version 4 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
	All data	2.8 Gb
	Arctic Data	149 Mb
	Coastal Data	1.1 Gb
	Indian Ocean Data	40.1 Mb
	North Atlantic Data	262 Mb
	North Pacific Data	92 Mb
	Southern Ocean Data	762 Mb
	Tropical Atlantic Data	124 Mb
	Tropical Pacific Data	317 Mb
	Flag E Data	167 Mb
	Instruction for reading syntesis files Matlab code for reading syntesis files	159 Kb 19 Kb
	Gridded files (only includes fCO₂ _rec)
	Monthly gridded	1.3 Gb
	Yearly gridded	136 Mb
	Decadal gridded	14.8 Mb
	Quarter-degree gridded monthly coastal	165 Mb
	Matlab code for reading gridded files	7.2 Kb
	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 V4 data sets	220 Mb
	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 4 can be found in the V4 release poster.
For a detailed description of data products, file formats and tools, see:

Recalculation

Recalculation in SOCAT V4 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 V4 we would like to thank all SOCAT data contributors, quality controllers, members of the automation team and meeting participants:

Bakker, Dorothee C E; Pfeil, Benjamin; O’Brien, Kevin M; Currie, Kim I; Jones, Stephen D; Landa, Camilla S; Lauvset, Siv K; Metzl, Nicolas; Munro, David R; Nakaoka, Shin-Ichiro; Olsen, Are; Pierrot, Denis; Saito, Shu; Smith, Karl; Sweeney, Colm; Takahashi, Taro; Wada, Chisato; Wanninkhof, Rik; Alin, Simone R; Becker, Meike; Bellerby, Richard GJ; Borges, Alberto Vieira; Boutin, Jacqueline; Bozec, Yann; Burger, Eugene; Cai, Wei-Jun; Castle, Robert D; Cosca, Catherine E; DeGrandpre, Michael D; Donnelly, Matthew; Eischeid, Greg; Feely, Richard A; Gkritzalis, Thanos; González-Dávila, Melchor; Goyet, Catherine; Guillot, Antoine; Hardman-Mountford, Nicolas; Hauck, Judith; Hoppema, Mario; Humphreys, Matthew P; Hunt, Christopher W; Ibánhez, J Severino P; Ichikawa, Tadafumi; Ishii, Masao; Juranek, Lauren W; Kitidis, Vassilis; Körtzinger, Arne; Koffi, Urbain K; Kozyr, Alexander; Kuwata, Akira; Lefèvre, Nathalie; Lo Monaco, Claire; Manke, Ansley; Marrec, Pierre; Mathis, Jeremy T; Millero, Frank J; Monacci, Natalie; Monteiro, Pedro M S; Murata, Akihiko; Newberger, Timothy; Nojiri, Yukihiro; Nonaka, Isao; Omar, Abdirahman M; Ono, Tsuneo; Padín, Xose Antonio; Rehder, Gregor; Rutgersson, Anna; Sabine, Christopher L; Salisbury, Joe; Santana-Casiano, Juana Magdalena; Sasano, Daisuke; Schuster, Ute; Sieger, Rainer; Skjelvan, Ingunn; Steinhoff, Tobias; Sullivan, Kevin; Sutherland, Stewart C; Sutton, Adrienne; Tadokoro, Kazuaki; Telszewski, Maciej; Thomas, Helmuth; Tilbrook, Bronte; van Heuven, Steven; Vandemark, Doug; Wallace, Douglas WR, and Woosley, Ryan.

Groups

SOCAT quality control is carried out by regional working groups with a global group for coordination.
The groups for SOCAT Version 4 can be found here.