CDIAC provides data management support for the ongoing Global Ocean Data Analysis Project (GLODAP). As of today, the GLODAP database consists of data from 122 World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) cruises as well as other international and historical cruises. WOCE is a major component of the World Climate Research Program, with an overall goal to better understand the ocean’s role in climate and climatic changes resulting from both natural and anthropogenic causes. The CDIAC measurements come from deep and shallow waters from all oceans. Additionally, the CDIAC Ocean Carbon Data Management Project has been organizing, quality assuring, documenting, archiving and distributing ocean carbon-related data collected via a number of U.S. and international ocean-observing programs. The measurements come from deep and shallow waters from all oceans. Individuals and groups can contribute relevant data to the CDIAC data collection through a prescribe process. An online process allows direct ocean carbon data CDIAC from individual investigators and groups following initial review.
CDIAC' estimates of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel consumption and land-use changes; records of atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other radiatively active trace gases; carbon cycle and terrestrial carbon management datasets and analyses; global and regional climate data and time series; and analyses of land-cover/land-use change.
CDIAC's holdings include data for the Western North Atlantic (including adjacent seas), Eastern North Atlantic (including adjacent seas) and the Eastern North Pacific. All data is available free of charge.