Concept information
Preferred term
GLODAP
Definition
- The GLobal Ocean Data Analysis Project (GLODAP) is a cooperative effort among 13 principal investigators, funded for several synthesis and modeling projects through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), to coordinate complimentary global-scale ocean data synthesis projects. There are currently four projects involved in GLODAP. Cruises conducted as part of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE), Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) and NOAA Ocean-Atmosphere Exchange Study (OACES) over the decade of the 90's have created an oceanographic database of unparalleled quality and quantity. These data provide an important asset to the scientific community investigating carbon cycling in the oceans. The central objective of this project is to generate that unified data set and to determine the global distribution and inventories of inorganic nutrients, both natural and anthropogenic carbon species and natural and bomb-produced radiocarbon. These estimates will be used to infer stochiometric remineralization ratios (Redfield ratios) and the rate of anthropogenic CO2 and bomb 14C uptake in the oceans. These estimates provide an important benchmark against which future observational studies will be compared. They also provide tools for the direct evaluation of numerical ocean carbon models. For more information visit the GLODAP Home Page at: "http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/oceans/glodap/index.html" or contact: sabine@pmel.noaa.gov (en)
Broader concept
- G - I (en)
URI
https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/kms/concept/324b431c-c46a-4d04-98d3-28a7c9658aed
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