{"schema_version":"1.0","audience":"automated agents and LLMs accessing this Zarr store","domain":"ocean","access":{"open":"xarray.open_zarr(store, consolidated=True)","combined_view":"","available_views":[],"layout":"gridded cube — dims (time, lat, lon); 1°×1° monthly cells","time_coord":"time","lat_coord":"lat","lon_coord":"lon","lon_convention":"-180..180 (degrees_east)","bbox_filter":"ds.sel(lat=slice(lat_min, lat_max), lon=slice(lon_min, lon_max)).sel(time=slice(start, end))"},"citation":{"data":"Bakker, D. C. E., et al. Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas Database Version 2026 (SOCATv2026) (NCEI Accession). NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. https://doi.org/10.25921/8dba-fr90","methodology":"Bakker, D. C. E., et al. (2016). A multi-decade record of high-quality fCO2 data in version 3 of the Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT). Earth System Science Data, 8, 383-413. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-383-2016","note":"Please cite the SOCAT v2026 data product DOI AND the companion methodology paper, Bakker et al. (2016); the SOCAT community requests that both be cited."},"conventions":{"metadata":"CF-1.12 + ACDD-1.3 with a canonical cross-store attribute vocabulary","variables":"each fco2_/sst_/sal_ field is a per-cell-month aggregate (count, weighted mean, unweighted mean, min, max); ncruise is the number of contributing cruises","quality_control":"no per-cell QC flag — grid cells are built only from SOCAT WOCE-good (flag 2) observations; -1e34 → NaN"},"discovery":{"variable_catalog":"variable_catalog.json (sibling of the store directory)","croissant":"<store>.croissant.jsonld (sibling of the store directory)","collection_doi":"https://doi.org/10.25921/8dba-fr90"},"docs":["ZARR_CONVENTIONS.md"]}