CANONICAL MARINE PARAMETER
CO2 partial pressure (pCO2)
Partial pressure of carbon dioxide in equilibrium with seawater. It differs slightly from CO2 fugacity because of gas non-ideality.
- Canonical key
pco2- Parameter family
- Carbon chemistry
- Scientific category
- Biogeochemistry
- Canonical unit
- uatm
- CF standard name / vocabulary
- Vertical domain
- surface/water column
- Required qualifiers
- temperature_reference; wet/dry basis
- Merge policy
- DO_NOT_MERGE_WITH_FCO2
- Mapped sources
- 4
Marine observation sources
The following registered sources have indexed metadata mappings for this parameter. Consult the registry details for each mapping's verification and review status.
- CCHDO / GO-SHIP hydrography CCHDO / GO-SHIP community
- World Ocean Database (WOD) NOAA NCEI / IODE
- SOCAT Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas community
- Copernicus Marine satellite observations Copernicus Marine Service