A regional ocean database for the Coastal China Sea.

ABSTRACT: Access to high-quality marine geophysical and biogeochemical in-situ data poses a challenge for model evaluation and parameter calibration of the Coastal China Sea (CCS). We describe a new regional ocean database for CCS (RODCCS) with original data from six repositories. The database covers the region of 116-135°E in longitude and 20-42°N in latitude, which embraces the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and a part of the Sea of Japan. About 3.9 million data points are collected and sorted according to variable types, including temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, silicate, nitrate, nitrite, ammonium, phosphate, Chlorophyll a, dissolved inorganic carbon, dissolved organic carbon, and particulate organic carbon. These data are quality-controlled (QCed) with six QC checks and

SUBMITTER: Wang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12457607 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature