The Global Open Ocean DOP (GOOD) data set 1932-1994.


The Global Open Ocean DOP (GOOD) data set was curated in 2001 from the 
U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration—National Ocean 
Data Center’s (NOAA-NODC) online oceanographic profile database and as 
well as from other published sources not available from the NOAA-NODC 
database. 

The GOOD dataset includes only paired measurements of soluble reactive 
phosphate (SRP), and total dissolved phosphorus (TDP) to derive the 
dissolved organic phosphorus (DOP) concentrations by taking the 
difference of TDP and SRP (TDP-SRP=DOP). The dataset was further reduced 
by omitting data where the resulting DOP was negative. 

This dataset contains measurements from all major ocean basins and spans 
the years 1932-1994, depths of 0-5500 m, and consists of 233,118 paired 
measurements with their spatial latitudinal and longitudinal positions. 

These data were presented in the book chapter "Dynamics of DOP" In 
Biogeochemistry In: Biogeochemistry of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter 
(D. A. Hansell, C. A. Carlson, Eds Academic Press, San Diego 
(1st edition 2002, and 2nd edition 2015). 

The GOOD data set was also referenced in Liang et al., 2022 Scientific 
Data 9, 772 .


Columns:

  LATITUDE (deg N): latitude N (−90 to 90)

  LONGITUDE (deg E): longitude E (−180 to 180)

  date (yyyy mm dd): sampling date

  depth (m): sampling depth

  SRP (µM): soluble reactive phosphate concentration

  TDP (µM): total dissolved phosphorus concentration

  DOP = TDP-DOP from paired samples only