WHENEVER GLODAPv2 DATABASE IS USED, PLEASE CITE THE RELEVANT ESSD PAPER: Olsen, A., R. M. Key, S. van Heuven, S. K. Lauvset, A. Velo, X. Lin, C. Schirnick, A. Kozyr, T. Tanhua, M. Hoppema, S. Jutterström, R. Steinfeldt, E. Jeansson, M. Ishii, F. F. Pérez and T. Suzuki. The Global Ocean Data Analysis Project version 2 (GLODAPv2) - an internally consistent data product for the world ocean, Earth System Science Data, 8, 297-323, 2016. doi: 10.5194/essd-8-297-2016 ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————- Parameters in the GLODAPv2 comma separated (csv) product files, their short names and units, in order of appearance. In the matlab product files that are also supplied, a “G2” has been added to every variable name. —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Parameter Units Variable Name Flag Name Secondary QC Flag Name —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Cruise number cruise Station station Cast cast Year year Month month Hour hour Minute minute Latitude latitude Longitude longitude Bottom depth m bottomdepth Pressure of the deepest sample dbar maxsampdepth Niskin bottle number bottle Sampling pressure dbar pressure Sampling depth m depth Temperature ◦C temperature Potential temperature ◦C theta Salinity salinity salinityf salinityqc Potential density kg m−3 sigma0 Potential density, ref 1000 dbar kg m−3 sigma1 Potential density, ref 2000 dbar kg m−3 sigma2 Potential density, ref 3000 dbar kg m−3 sigma3 Potential density, ref 4000 dbar kg m−3 sigma4 Neutral density kg m-3 gamma Oxygen μmol kg−1 oxygen oxygenf oxygenqc Apparent oxygen utilization μmol kg−1 aou aouf Nitrate μmol kg−1 nitrate nitratef nitrateqc Nitrite μmol kg−1 nitrite nitritef Silicate μmol kg−1 silicate silicatef silicateqc Phosphate μmol kg−1 phosphate phosphatef phosphateqc TCO2 μmol kg−1 tco2 tco2f tco2qc TAlk μmol kg−1 talk talkf talkqc pH at total scale, 25 ◦ C and zero dbar of pressure phts25p0 phts25p0f phtsqc pH at total scale, in situ temperature and pressure phtsinsitutp phtsinsitutpf phtsqc CFC-11 pmol kg−1 cfc11 cfc11f cfc11qc pCFC-11 ppt pcfc11 CFC-12 pmol kg−1 cfc12 cfc12f cfc12qc pCFC-12 ppt pcfc12 CFC-113 pmol kg−1 cfc113 cfc113f cfc113qc CCl4 pmol kg−1 ccl4 ccl4f ccl4qc pCCl4 ppt pccl4 SF6 fmol kg−1 sf6 sf6f pSF6 ppt psf6 δ13C ‰ c13 c13f ∆14C ‰ c14 c14f ∆14C counting error ‰ c14err 3H TU h3 h3f 3H counting error TU h3err δ3He % he3 he3f 3He counting error % he3err He nmol kg−1 he hef He counting error nmol kg−1 heerr Ne nmol kg−1 neon neonf Ne counting error nmol kg−1 neonerr δ18O ‰ o18 o18f Total organic carbon μmol L-1 toc tocf Dissolved organic carbon μmol kg−1 doc docf Dissolved organic nitrogen μmol kg−1 don donf Total dissolved nitrogen μmol kg−1 tdn tdnf Chlorophyll a ug L-1 chla chlaf