The Bjerknes Climate Data Centre has the central role for European and Global data management activities for data related to the Essential Ocean Variable Inorganic Carbon. Currently data management activities for the marine part of the European Research Infrastructure ICOS (Integrated Carbon Observation System) are handled by BCDC.

Data reduction and quality control software

Within ICOS dedicated software is being developed allowing online quality control, data reduction and quality assurance based upon community agreed procedures. This software called QuinCe will enable scientists to quality control EOV Inorganic Carbon data based upon the same routines and heavily reduce global uncertainties. This software will be published as Open Source.

In April 2017 at the Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network (http://goa-on.org) executive board meeting at IOC UNESCO the global impact of this software was highlighted since it has a global impact by reducing the global uncertainties by having consistent quality control and documentation on a global scale, outreach by having online class on how to perform quality control, enabling developing countries to perform QC based upon community agreed standards independent from proprietary software.

Global data products

The Bjerknes Climate Data Centre is contributing data management efforts on a global scale by supporting global data products related to the Essential Ocean Variable Inorganic Carbon/Carbonate System such as the Surface Ocean Carbon Dioxide Atlas Project (SOCAT) and the Global Data Analysis Project (GLODAP). Both data products are the core data products of IOC UNESCO's Global Ocean Observing System's (GOOS) biogeochemical panel International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project (IOCCP).

The Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT, www.socat.info) is a synthesis activity by the international marine carbon research community and has more than 100 contributors worldwide. SOCAT is based upon a database initiated at the University of Bergen and provides access to synthesis and gridded, quality controlled, observational products of surface ocean fCO2 (fugacity of carbon dioxide) for the global oceans and coastal seas. Scientists from the University of Bergen/UNI Research provide data to SOCAT on a global basis. Scientists from UiB/UNI Research and data managers of the Bjerknes Climate Data Centre are in leading positions (such as regional quality control groups, automation efforts and global coordination group) within the SOCAT community effort.

Global Carbon Project

SOCAT data is being used for the annual global carbon budget assessments of the Global Carbon Project (GCP).