An update to the Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT version 2)

The Surface Ocean CO 2 Atlas (SOCAT), an activity of the international marine carbon research community, provides access to synthesis and gridded f CO 2 (fugacity of carbon dioxide) products for the surface oceans. Version 2 of SOCAT is an update of the previous release (version 1) with more data (increased from 6.3 million to 10.1 million surface water f CO 2 values) and extended data coverage (from 1968–2007 to 1968–2011). The quality control criteria, while identical in both versions, have been applied more strictly in version 2 than in version 1. The SOCAT website (http://www.socat.info/) has links to quality control comments, metadata, individual data set files, and synthesis and gridded data products. Interactive online tools allow visitors to explore the richness of the data. Applications of SOCAT include process studies, quantification of the ocean carbon sink and its spatial, seasonal, year-to-year and longerterm variation, as well as initialisation or validation of ocean carbon models and coupled climate-carbon models.

Jacqueline Boutin | Andrew J. Watson | Taro Takahashi | Nicholas R. Bates | Reiner Schlitzer | Tobias Steinhoff | Rainer Sieger | Richard A. Feely | Colm Sweeney | Benjamin Pfeil | Are Olsen | Mario Hoppema | S. van Heuven | Douglas W.R. Wallace | Francisco P. Chavez | Arne Körtzinger | Siv K. Lauvset | Dorothee C. E. Bakker | Wei-Jun Cai | Agneta Fransson | Wiley Evans | Tsuneo Ono | Nathalie Lefèvre | Nick J. Hardman-Mountford | Jerry Tjiputra | Adrienne Sutton | Denis Pierrot | Nicolas Metzl | Rik Wanninkhof | H. J. W. de Baar | Karl Smith | S. Hankin | Sumiko Harasawa | Ute Schuster | Chisato Wada | Simone R. Alin | Yann Bozec | R. D. Castle | Melissa Chierici | Christopher W Hunt | Betty Huss | Vassilis Kitidis | Ansley Manke | Liliane Merlivat | Akihiko Murata | Timothy Newberger | Abdirahman M Omar | K. Paterson | Joe Salisbury | Maciej Telszewski | Peter Landschützer | Aida F. Ríos | L. Chen | Penny Vlahos | Ingunn Skjelvan | Bronte Tilbrook | Christopher L. Sabine | Burke Hales | C. W. Hunt | C. Sweeney | R. Feely | F. Chavez | A. Watson | L. Merlivat | B. Tilbrook | M. Telszewski | W. Cai | J. Boutin | S. Hankin | C. Sabine | D. Vandemark | J. Salisbury | R. Schlitzer | R. Sieger | T. Newberger | C. Cosca | P. Landschützer | A. Sutton | R. Wanninkhof | M. Chierici | A. Fransson | N. Metzl | U. Schuster | Taro Takahashi | N. Bates | J. Mathis | D. Bakker | S. Alin | L. Barbero | K. Currie | M. Hoppema | A. Körtzinger | N. Lefèvre | A. Olsen | A. Omar | T. Ono | D. Pierrot | I. Skjelvan | Y. Nojiri | B. Pfeil | T. Johannessen | D. Wallace | A. Ríos | T. Steinhoff | Wei‐Jen Huang | V. Kitidis | B. Hales | S. Lauvset | A. Murata | S. Saito | Y. Bozec | N. Hardman-Mountford | J. Tjiputra | H. D. Baar | Wiley Evans | S. Jones | G. Park | S. Jutterström | K. O'Brien | P. Vlahos | Yukihiro Nojiri | Jeremy T. Mathis | Kim I. Currie | Doug Vandemark | T. Ichikawa | E. Jones | V. Sarma | A. Kozyr | Alex Kozyr | Sara Jutterström | Truls Johannessen | J. Akl | C. Cosca | S. D. Jones | G.-H. Park | V. V. S. S. Sarma | S. Saito | K. O'Brien | L. Barbero | Z. Gao | Wei-Jen Huang | T. Ichikawa | E. Jones | K. F. Sullivan | H. Sun | T. Suzuki | Nobuo Tsurushima | T. Suzuki | N. Tsurushima | A. Manke | Z. Gao | S. Harasawa | K. Sullivan | S. Heuven | C. Wada | Karl Smith | J. Akl | L. Chen | Betty Huss | K. Paterson | H. Sun | R. Castle | T. Suzuki | H. Baar | K. O’Brien | W. Evans | K. O’brien | W. Cai

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