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Global subsurface ocean acidification indicators at depth levels of 50, 100, and 200 meters from 1750-01-01 to 2100-12-31 (NCEI Accession 0287573)

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: January 26, 2026 | Last Modified: 2025-04-25T00:00:00.000+00:00
This data package contains 10 global subsurface ocean acidification (OA) indicators at standardized depth levels of 50, 100, and 200 meters. The indicators include fugacity of carbon dioxide, pH on the total scale, total hydrogen ion content, free hydrogen ion content, carbonate ion content, aragonite saturation state, calcite saturation state, Revelle Factor, total dissolved inorganic carbon content, and total alkalinity content. They are presented on a global ocean grid of 1° × 1°, as decadal averages spanning from preindustrial conditions (1750) through historical conditions (1850–2010) and projected into five future scenarios defined by Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSP1-2.6, SSP2-4.5, SSP3-7.0, and SSP5-8.5) from 2020 to 2100. These OA indicators were generated by following the same approach as described by Jiang et al. (2023) (https://doi.org/10.1029/2022MS003563), and utilized data from 14 Earth System Models (ESMs) from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6), as well as a gridded data product provided by Lauvset et al. (2016) (https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-325-2016). The median and standard deviation values stored as Excel files in the "Median_Std_subsurface" folder were area-averaged values under the IPCC business-as-usual Scenario, i.e., SSP5-8.5.

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