IOCCP is committed to promoting and developing interoperable data management activities and policies to ensure open access to, and preservation of, fully documented ocean carbon and biogeochemistry data. A key activity is to promote the integration of ocean carbon and biogeochemistry information into research and assessments including the use of relevant data synthesis products. For more than a decade, IOCCP has continued to support the development of two global data synthesis projects, both constituting a tremendous community effort: Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT; www.socat.info) and the Global Ocean Data Analysis Project (GLODAP; www.glodap.info). These successful efforts have resulted in two mature products with regular updates providing a key source of information on the global distribution and trends in biogeochemical EOVs in the surface ocean and the ocean interior, respectively. Both SOCAT and GLODAP have been used for a number of applications, including climate modelling and assessments. Please follow the links below to learn more about SOCAT and GLODAP, to access the newest product releases, and to submit your data.
IOCCP continues to support new ideas for future synthesis products related to for example dissolved oxygen measurements from multiple observing platforms, or for various applications requiring data from a global network of time series stations.