CARINA Data Synthesis Project

Toste Tanhua (1) , Are Olsen (2) , Mario Hoppema (3) , Sara Jutterström , Carsten Schirnick , Steven M. A. C. van Heuven , Anton Velo (4) , X. Lin (5) , Alex Kozyr , Marta Alvarez (6) , Dorothee C. E. Bakker (7) , P. Brown , E. Falck (8) , Emil Jeansson , Claire Lo Monaco (9) , Jon Olafsson , Fiz F. Pérez (10) , Denis Pierrot (11) , Aida F. Rios (4) , Christopher L. Sabine (12) , Ute Schuster (7) , Reiner Steinfeldt , I. Stendardo (13, 14) , L. G. Anderson , Nicholas R. Bates (15) , Richard G. J. Bellerby (2) , James Blindheim , John L. Bullister (12) , Nicolas Gruber (16) , Masao Ishii (17) , Truls Johannessen , E. Peter Jones (18) , J. Köhler , Arne Körtzinger , Nicolas Metzl (9) , Akihiko Murata , Sylvia Musielewicz , Abdirahman M. Omar , K. A. Olsson , M. de La Paz , Benjamin Pfeil , F. Rey (19) , Monika Rhein (20) , Ingunn Skjelvan , Bronte Tilbrook (21) , Rik H. Wanninkhof (12) , Ludger Mintrop , Douglas W. R. Wallace , Robert M. Key

1 IFM-GEOMAR - Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften
2 UiB - University of Bergen
3 MRI - Meteorological Research Institute [Tsukuba]
4 Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas
5 Qing-Hua University
6 IMEDEA - Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avancats
7 UEA - University of East Anglia [Norwich]
8 GFI / BiU - Geophysical Institute [Bergen]
9 LOCEAN - Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques
10 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas
11 ERIC - Equipe de Recherche en Ingénierie des Connaissances
12 NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
13 SZN - Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
14 IBP - Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics [ETH Zürich]
15 BIOS - Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences
16 ETH Zürich - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich]
17 AWI - Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung = Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research = Institut Alfred-Wegener pour la recherche polaire et marine
18 Bedford Institute of Oceanography
19 LISE - Laboratoire interdisciplinaire pour la sociologie économique
20 IUP - Institut für Umweltphysik [Bremen]
21 CSIRO Wealth from Oceans National Research Flagship and Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC

The CARINA (CARbon dioxide IN the Atlantic Ocean) data synthesis project is an international collaborative effort of the EU IP CARBOOCEAN, and US partners. It has produced a merged internally consistent data set of open ocean subsurface measurements for biogeochemical investigations, in particular, studies involving the carbon system. The original focus area was the North Atlantic Ocean, but over time the geographic extent expanded and CARINA now includes data from the entire Atlantic, the Arctic Ocean, and the Southern Ocean. Carbon data from the Pacific Ocean are being synthesized in the PICES effort.The CARINA database includes data from 188 cruises. The salinity, oxygen, nutrient, inorganic carbon system and CFC data have been subjected to extensive quality control (QC) and adjustments have been made when necessary. The internally consistent data are available as three data products, one each for the Arctic Mediterranean Seas, the Atlantic and the Southern Oceans (CARINA Data Products). In addition, all of the individual cruise data files have been made available in WOCE exchange format in a single location (Cruise Summary Table) along with metadata and references. We strongly recommend users to employ the data products instead of the individual cruise files as the data in the latter have not been corrected for biases identified during the secondary QC. The CARINA effort is further described in the following as well as in the CARINA special issue of Earth System Science Data (ESSD) Journal.The CARINA database is available free of charge as a numeric data package (NDP) from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC). The NDP consists of the original oceanographic data files from 188 cruises, three data products and this documentation, which describes the CARINA project.

Mots clés: total alkalinity; dissolved inorganic carbon; carbon dioxide; CARINA; Atlantic Ocean; CLIVAR

Domaines: Géophysique [physics.geo-ph]

Toste Tanhua, Are Olsen, Mario Hoppema, Sara Jutterström, Carsten Schirnick, et al.. CARINA Data Synthesis Project. 2008, ⟨10.3334/CDIAC/otg.ndp091⟩. ⟨hal-01245542⟩