FastFind »   Lastname: doi:10.1029/ Year: Advanced Search  

AGU: Global Biogeochemical Cycles

 

Keywords

  • carbon
  • distribution
  • inventory

Index Terms

  • Global Change: Oceans
  • Oceanography: Biological and Chemical: Carbon cycling
  • Oceanography: Biological and Chemical: Nutrients and nutrient cycling
  • Oceanography: Biological and Chemical: Radioactivity and radioisotopes

Abstract

GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES, VOL. 18, GB4031, 23 PP., 2004
doi:10.1029/2004GB002247

A global ocean carbon climatology: Results from Global Data Analysis Project (GLODAP)

R. M. Key

Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

A. Kozyr

Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA

C. L. Sabine

Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NOAA, Seattle, Washington, USA

K. Lee

School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Republic of Korea

R. Wanninkhof

Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, NOAA, Miami, Florida, USA

J. L. Bullister

Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NOAA, Seattle, Washington, USA

R. A. Feely

Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NOAA, Seattle, Washington, USA

F. J. Millero

Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA

C. Mordy

Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NOAA, Seattle, Washington, USA

T.-H. Peng

Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, NOAA, Miami, Florida, USA

During the 1990s, ocean sampling expeditions were carried out as part of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE), the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS), and the Ocean Atmosphere Carbon Exchange Study (OACES). Subsequently, a group of U.S. scientists synthesized the data into easily usable and readily available products. This collaboration is known as the Global Ocean Data Analysis Project (GLODAP). Results were merged into a common format data set, segregated by ocean. For comparison purposes, each ocean data set includes a small number of high-quality historical cruises. The data were subjected to rigorous quality control procedures to eliminate systematic data measurement biases. The calibrated 1990s data were used to estimate anthropogenic CO2, potential alkalinity, CFC watermass ages, CFC partial pressure, bomb-produced radiocarbon, and natural radiocarbon. These quantities were merged into the measured data files. The data were used to produce objectively gridded property maps at a 1° resolution on 33 depth surfaces chosen to match existing climatologies for temperature, salinity, oxygen, and nutrients. The mapped fields are interpreted as an annual mean distribution in spite of the inaccuracy in that assumption. Both the calibrated data and the gridded products are available from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center. Here we describe the important details of the data treatment and the mapping procedure, and present summary quantities and integrals for the various parameters.

Received 25 February 2004; accepted 1 November 2004; published 29 December 2004.

Citation: Key, R. M., A. Kozyr, C. L. Sabine, K. Lee, R. Wanninkhof, J. L. Bullister, R. A. Feely, F. J. Millero, C. Mordy, and T.-H. Peng (2004), A global ocean carbon climatology: Results from Global Data Analysis Project (GLODAP), Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 18, GB4031, doi:10.1029/2004GB002247.

Cited By

Please wait one moment ...