Climate-Biogeochemistry Interactions in the Tropical Ocean: Data Collection and Legacy

From 2008 to 2019, a comprehensive research project, 'SFB 754, Climate - Biogeochemistry Interactions in the Tropical Ocean,' was funded by the German Research Foundation to investigate the climate-biogeochemistry interactions in the tropical ocean with a particular emphasis on the processes determining the oxygen distribution. During three 4-year long funding phases, a consortium of more than 150 scientists conducted or participated in 34 major research cruises and collected a wealth of physical, biological, chemical, and meteorological data. A common data policy agreed upon at the initiation of the project provided the basis for the open publication of all data. Here we provide an inventory of this unique data set and briefly summarize the various data acquisition and processing methods used.

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Funded by the German Research Foundation, the research project 'SFB 754, Climate - Biogeochemistry Interactions in the Tropical Ocean' aimed to investigate climate-biogeochemistry interactions in the tropical ocean, with a focus on oxygen distribution processes. Over three 4-year funding phases, a consortium of over 150 scientists conducted 34 major research cruises, collecting extensive physical, biological, chemical, and meteorological data, with an agreed common data policy ensuring openness in data publication.