Global Carbon Budget 2024, surface ocean fugacity of CO2 (fCO2) and air-sea CO2 flux of individual global ocean biogeochemical models and surface ocean fCO2-based data-products

Surface ocean fugacity of CO2 (fCO2) and air-sea CO2 flux data from individual Global Ocean Biogeochemistry Models (GOBMs) and surface ocean fCO2-based data-products (fCO2-products).
There are three types of files: (1) one file per fCO2-product with gridded fields and regionally-integrated CO2 flux time-series, (2) one file per GOBM with gridded fields, and (3) one file with the regionally-integrated time-series for the GOBMs.  

Note: These provided gridded outputs from fCO2-based data-products and GOBMs are regridded datasets, without adjustments. The best estimates of the annual global ocean carbon sink, based on the native grids of fCO2-products and GOBMs and with the adjustments described in the Global Carbon Budget 2024 (https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2024-519), are available in the Global Carbon Budget 2024 spreadsheet.

The regionally-integrated time-series are as provided by the contributing groups, i.e. integrated from their native grids. In order to reproduce Figure 14 of the Global Carbon Budget 2024 paper (https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2024-519), the river flux adjustment needs to be added to the CO2 flux estimated from the fCO2-products (North: 0.14 GtC yr-1, Tropics: 0.42 GtC yr-1, South: 0.09 GtC yr-1, see GCB 2024 paper). The sum of the regional fluxes may differ from the global estimates as reported in the GCB spreadsheet, because some adjustments were applied only for global fluxes.

What is in the files?

(1) The files for the fCO2-based data-products contain the following variables (temporal resolution: monthly):

fgco2_reg: Regionally integrated air-sea CO2 flux (positive downward), monthly, for regions: global, north, tropics, south
fgco2: Flux density of the total air-sea CO2 flux (positive downward), dimensions: time, latitude, longitude
sfco2: Surface ocean fCO2, dimensions: time, latitude, longitude
area: Area per pixel, dimensions: latitude, longitude
area_reg: Total surface ocean area covered by native grid, for global, north, tropics, south

(2) The files for the GOBMs contain the following fields, for simulation A ('contemporary simulation', including effects of rising CO2, climate change and variability) and simulation B ('control simulation', constant CO2, no climate change and variability). Temporal resolution: monthly

fgco2: Flux density of the total air-sea CO2 flux (positive downward), dimensions: time, latitude, longitude
sfco2: Surface ocean fCO2, dimensions: time, latitude, longitude
area: Area per pixel, dimensions: latitude, longitude

(3) One file 'GCB-2024_OceanModel_RegionalBreakdown_1959-2023.nc' with the regionally-integrated CO2 flux time-series for all individual GOBMs, and for simulations A and B. Regions: North, tropics, south. Temporal resolution: annual.

Fair data use statement:
The data and model output provided on this site are freely available and were furnished by individual scientists who encourage their use.
Citation: Please cite the Global Carbon Budget 2024 (Friedlingstein et al., 2024, ESSD, https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2024-519) for all data. In addition, please also cite the corresponding original reference for each dataset that has been used - see Table 4 in Global Carbon Budget 2024 for references of all the individual Global Ocean Biogeochemical Models and fCO2-based data-products. Further, for an overview of the Global Ocean Biogeochemical Model output, you may find it useful to cite Hauck et al. (2020, Frontiers, doi:10.3389/fmars.2020.571720).

Acknowledgement: Please add the following text in the acknowledgement of your paper: "We acknowledge the Global Carbon Project, which is responsible for the Global Carbon Budget and we thank the ocean modeling and fCO2-mapping groups for producing and making available their model and fCO2-product output."
Co-authorship: An invitation of co-authorship to the contributing groups is encouraged if these data are the central data set of the publication.

Besides the surface fCO2 and air-sea CO2 flux data that is made available open access, we make additional 3D output from the Global Ocean Biogeochemical models (GCB-ocean) available upon request and with its own data policy. Please refer to the Global Carbon Budget website for these additional data: https://globalcarbonbudgetdata.org/closed-access-requests.html