{"id":2342,"date":"2026-06-29T09:39:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T07:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glodap.info\/?page_id=2342"},"modified":"2026-06-30T10:13:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T08:13:00","slug":"carimed_product","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/glodap.info\/index.php\/carimed_product\/","title":{"rendered":"CARIMED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/carimed_logo_color_pos_mini.jpg\" alt=\"CARIMED Logo\" width=\"250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>CARIMED (CARbon, tracers, and ancillary data In the MEDiterranean Sea) is a high-quality, FAIR  dataset integrating hydrographic, biogeochemical, and transient tracer data from 46 research cruises (1976\u20132018) across the Mediterranean Sea. The data underwent rigorous, basin-adapted quality control to remove systematic biases, unifying four decades of fragmented data, delivering two complementary products: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.20350\/digitalCSIC\/17785\">The aggregated original cruise data product<\/a> (Garc\u00eda-Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez et al., 2025).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.25921\/cp5b-zq67\">The bias-adjusted data synthesis product<\/a> (\u00c1lvarez et al., 2025).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both data products are available in WHP Exchange, NetCDF and Apache Parquet formats. The synthesis product is also available in <a href=\"https:\/\/odv.awi.de\/data\/ocean\/carimed\/\">ODV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers using this dataset are kindly requested to cite the associated reference publication(s). The CARIMED reference group can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncei.noaa.gov\/access\/ocean-carbon-acidification-data-system\/oceans\/CARIMED\/CARIMED_Group.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. In addition, individual cruises may be cited using the DOI provided in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncei.noaa.gov\/access\/ocean-carbon-acidification-data-system\/oceans\/CARIMED\/CARIMED_cruise_table.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cruise Summary Table<\/a>. We encourage users planning substantial analyses, derivative datasets, or major publications based on CARIMED products or individual cruises to contact us to discuss opportunities for collaboration and potential co-authorship, in accordance with standard academic practices and contribution guidelines. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/carimed_fig.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/carimed_fig.jpg\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\nOverview of the cruises included in the CARIMED data synthesis products: (a) spatiotemporal distribution of stations (year vs. longitude), coloured by Chief Scientist country, with the legend indicating the percentage of cruises per country; (b) histogram of the number of samples per variable, grouped into five-year periods, with variables categorised as CTD (thermohaline variables), dissolved oxygen (O\u2082), dissolved inorganic nutrients represented with nitrate (NITRAT), total alkalinity (TA), pH, total dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), and transient tracers (CFC-12 and SF\u2086); map showing the cruise stations (black or colored dots) included in CARIMED grouped by five-year periods with (c) any of the three CO\u2082 variables, pH, TA and\/or DIC; or with (d) transient tracers data.<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>Garc\u00eda-Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez, Maribel I.; \u00c1lvarez, Marta; Lange, Nico; Kozyr, Alex; Velo, Ant\u00f3n; Tanhua, Toste; Civitarese, Giuseppe; Cantoni, Carolina; Belgacem, Malek; Schroeder, Katrin; Acerbi, Rub\u00e9n; Coppola, Laurent; Wagener, Thibaut; Fajar, Noelia M.; Flecha, Susana; Giani, Michele; Giannoudi, Louisa; Guallart, Elisa F.; El Rahman Hassoun, Abed; Huertas, Emma I.; Ibello, Valeria; Keraghel, Mehdia Asma; Louanchi, F\u00e9rial; Luchetta, Anna; P\u00e9rez, Fiz F.; Schirnick, Carsten; Souvermezoglou, Ekaterini; Urbini, Lidia; Vidal, Montserrat; Ziveri, Patrizia; 2025; CARIMED (CARbon, tracers, and ancillary data In the MEDiterranean Sea) aggregated original cruise data product [Dataset]; DIGITAL.CSIC; <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.20350\/digitalCSIC\/17785\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.20350\/digitalCSIC\/17785<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00c1lvarez, Marta; Garc\u00eda-Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez, Maribel I.; Lange, Nico; Kozyr, Alex; Velo, Ant\u00f3n; Tanhua, Toste; Civitarese, Giuseppe; Cantoni, Carolina; Belgacem, Malek; Schroeder, Katrin; Acerbi, Rub\u00e9n; Coppola, Laurent; Wagener, Thibaut; Fajar, Noelia M.; Flecha, Susana; Giani, Michele; Giannoudi, Louisa; Guallart, Elisa F.; Hassoun, Abed El Rahman; Huertas, I. Emma; Ibello, Valeria; Keraghel, Mehdia Asma; Louanchi, F\u00e9rial; Luchetta, Anna; P\u00e9rez, Fiz F.; Schirnick, Carsten; Souvermezoglou, Ekaterini; Urbini, Lidia; Vidal, Montserrat; Ziveri, Patrizia (2025). CARbon, tracers, and ancillary data In the MEDiterranean Sea (CARIMED) (NCEI Accession 0309255). NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.25921\/cp5b-zq67\" target=\"_blank\"> https:\/\/doi.org\/10.25921\/cp5b-zq67<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CARIMED (CARbon, tracers, and ancillary data In the MEDiterranean Sea) is a high-quality, FAIR dataset integrating hydrographic, biogeochemical, and transient tracer data from 46 research cruises (1976\u20132018) across the Mediterranean Sea. The data underwent rigorous, basin-adapted quality control to remove systematic biases, unifying four decades of fragmented data, delivering two complementary products: The aggregated original &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glodap.info\/index.php\/carimed_product\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CARIMED&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2342","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glodap.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glodap.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glodap.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glodap.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glodap.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2342"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/glodap.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2388,"href":"https:\/\/glodap.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2342\/revisions\/2388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glodap.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}