Atlantic Ocean CARINA data: overview and salinity adjustments ...

• Main Authors: Tanhua, Toste, Steinfeldt, Reiner, Key, Robert M., Brown, Peter J., Gruber, Nicolas, Wanninkhof, Rik H., Pérez, Fíz F., Körtzinger, Arne, Velo, Anton, Schuster, Ute, Van Heuven, Steven M.A.C., Bullister, John L., Stendardo, Ilaria, Hoppema, Mario, Olsen, Are, Kozyr, Alex, Pierrot, Denis, Schirnick, Carsten, Wallace, Douglas
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: ETH Zurich 2010
• Subjects: Arctic; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000028315; http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/28315

Water column data of carbon and carbon-relevant hydrographic and hydrochemical parameters from 188 previously non-publicly available cruise data sets in the Arctic Mediterranean Seas, Atlantic and Southern Ocean have been retrieved and merged into a new database: CARINA (CARbon dioxide IN the Atlantic Ocean). The data have gone through rigorous quality control procedures to assure the highest possible quality and consistency. The data for the pertinent parameters in the CARINA database were objectively examined in order to quantify systematic differences in the reported values, i.e. secondary quality control. Systematic biases found in the data have been corrected in the three data products: merged data files with measured, calculated and interpolated data for each of the three CARINA regions, i.e. the Arctic Mediterranean Seas, the Atlantic and the Southern Ocean. These products have been corrected to be internally consistent. Ninety-eight of the cruises in the CARINA database were conducted in the Atlantic ... : Earth System Science Data, 2 (1) ...