ORFOIS (Global Solid Surface Sediment Data)

ORFOIS
Origin and fate of biogenic particle fluxes in the ocean and their interaction with the atmospheric CO2 concentration as well as the marine sediment.
Contract n° EVK2-CT-2001-001000

Bibliography
Multi-tracer_station_data
     AESOPS
     BATS
     BENGAL
     BIGSET-1
     BIGSET-2
     EqPac
     ESTOC
     EUMELI
     HOT
     KERFIX
     NABE
     OMEX
     PAP
     PAPA
     WS1
Sediment_trap_flux_data
Global_solid_surface_sediment_data
     BSiO2
     CaCO3
     TOC
     SR
     AR
     Porosity
Global_water_column_data
     O2
     PO4
     H4SiO4
     ALK
     DIC
     DOC
     NO3
     Chl-a
     PP
2nd_annual_workshop
3rd_annual_workshop

Forum

Updated on October 30, 2004

Compilation of global solid surface sediment data sets

Through the model development, ORFOIS provide tools for the study of global and regional environmental issues (marine CO₂ source/sink distribution and its spatial as well as temporal change, carbon nutrient redistribution in the water column and the sediment, atmospheric CO₂ partial pressure, see p. 16 of the Work Programme EESD, Part A).
There are many thoughts what depth would be the best to retrieve a maximum of valuable data. We decided to [wrongly] define the sediment surface as the depths interval between 0 cm and 35 cm sediment depth. This is scientifically not correct and corresponds rather to a technical working solution. Thus: If you refer to other sediment depths as given here in order to model the surface sediment of the global ocean, please, cut the data that you need out of the data files.

To get an overview about the data available in the following section, please have a look at the map and the variable/parameter distributions (.pdf document). In order to present properly the results Ocean Data View (Reiner Schlitzer , Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research) has been applied.

Data are available as ODV collection and are delivered as .zip files. If you have comments on that, please let me know (Nicolas Dittert , WDC-MARE).

Global BSiO₂ [weight-%] distribution

All ORFOIS related data with respect to global solid surface sediment biogenic silica data are continuously updated and available online at: http://orfois.wdc-mare.org/Results/BSiO2.html
Whenever you use data of the ORFOIS data compilation that refer to the global solid surface sediment BSiO₂ (opal, biogenic silica) data collection, please quote the citations of the following publications:
http://orfois.wdc-mare.org/BSiO2_References.php

Global CaCO₃ [weight-%] distribution

All ORFOIS related data with respect to global solid surface sediment calcium carbonate data are continuously updated and available online at: http://orfois.wdc-mare.org/Results/CaCO3.html
Whenever you use data of the ORFOIS data compilation that refer to the global solid surface sediment CaCO₃ (calcite, calcium carbonate) data collection, please quote the citations of the following publications:
http://orfois.wdc-mare.org/CaCO3_References.php

Global TOC [weight-%] distribution

All ORFOIS related data with respect to global solid surface sediment total organic carbon data are continuously updated and available online at: http://orfois.wdc-mare.org/Results/TOC.html
Whenever you use data of the ORFOIS data compilation that refer to the global solid surface sediment TOC data collection, please quote the citations of the following publications:
http://orfois.wdc-mare.org/TOC_References.php

Global SR [cm/kyr] distribution

All ORFOIS related data with respect to global solid surface sedimentation rate data are continuously updated and available online at: http://orfois.wdc-mare.org/Results/SR.html
Whenever you use data of the ORFOIS data compilation that refer to the global solid surface sediment SR data collection, please quote the citations of the following publications:
http://orfois.wdc-mare.org/SR_References.php

Global AR [g/cm²/kyr] distribution

All ORFOIS related data with respect to global solid surface sediment accumulation rate data are continuously updated and available online at: http://orfois.wdc-mare.org/Results/AR.html
Whenever you use data of the ORFOIS data compilation that refer to the global solid surface sediment AR data collection, please quote the citations of the following publications:
http://orfois.wdc-mare.org/AR_References.php

Global Porosity [%] distribution

All ORFOIS related data with respect to global solid surface porosity data are continuously updated and available online at: http://orfois.wdc-mare.org/Results/Porosity.html
Whenever you use data of the ORFOIS data compilation that refer to the global solid surface sediment porosity data collection, please quote the citations of the following publications:
http://orfois.wdc-mare.org/Porosity_References.php

info@pangaea.de