Arctic Ocean primary production data were assembled from original input data archived in various international databases, provided by individual investigators or in publications. The data were collected by various methods and resulted from the efforts of many individual, national and international research efforts conducted between 1954 and 2007. Station data (cruise, station, latitude, longitude, depth), discrete data for productivity and chlorophyll a (value, method, phase, incubation type and length), photosynthetically available radiation (PAR) (incoming, integrated over incubation period), some integrated parameters, and some hydrographic parameters (nutrient concentration, mixed layer depth) as well as source (investigator, data base, publication, etc.), if available, were included.

This dataset contains contains chlorophyll data collected from 1958-1988 using multiple ships. Marine pigments, productivity, and associated chemistry data were collected in NE Atlantic (limit-40 W) and NW Atlantic (limit-40 W) as part of the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS). This data base has approx. 12,000 stations in JGOFS format. Any particulars on the station data can be found in JGR-Oceans, 97:2279-2293; titled The Remote Sensing of Ocean Primary Productivity. Data was submitted by William Balch, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS), University of Miami. Also, these data have been copied onto CD-Rom at Goddard for distribution with the CZCS.

Oceanographic profiles of temperature, salinity, oxygen, nutrients, pH, alkalinity, and chlorophyll were acquired during numerous cruises in the North Atlantic, West Greenland shelf, Norwegian Sea, Barents Sea, and the marginal seas of Northern Europe from 2009 to 2020. The data were submitted to the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) and then submitted to NCEI by ICES. The measurements were made by CTD and bottle instruments.

The dataset contains daily primary production (PP) estimates in mgC/m^2/day (milligrams carbon per meter squared per day) for the subarctic Atlantic area (Nordic Seas) between 2003 and 2018, obtained with a wavelength-resolved model applied to ocean-observing satellite data (Bélanger et al., 2013; also described in the supplementary material of Mayot et al., submitted). The dataset has a spatiotemporal resolution of 8-day and ~30 km. The dataset corresponds to 16 tables (one for each year between 2003 and 2018) that contains annual time series of PP (between March 6 and October 15) for each pixel of the satellite image. The first two columns provide the longitude and latitude of each pixel were a time series of PP is available. The following twenty-seven columns correspond to estimated daily PP averaged over twenty-seven 8 days time period, from March 6 to October 7. The date in the column name is the first date of each 8 days time period.

This dataset includes biological, chemical, discrete sample, optical, physical and profile data collected from HEALY in the Arctic Ocean and Beaufort Sea from 2004-07-18 to 2004-08-26. These data include CHLOROPHYLL A, DISSOLVED OXYGEN, FLUORESCENCE, HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE, NITRATE, NITRITE, PHAEOPHYTIN, Potential temperature (theta), SALINITY, WATER TEMPERATURE, phosphate and silicate. The instruments used to collect these data include CTD and bottle. These data were collected by Louis A. Codispoti of Horn Point Laboratory (UMCES HPL) and James H. Swift of Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) as part of the CARINA/32H120040910 dataset. CDIAC associated the following cruise ID(s) with this dataset: CARINA/32H120040910 The CARINA (CARbon dioxide IN the Atlantic Ocean) data synthesis project is an international collaborative effort of the EU IP CARBOOCEAN, and U.S. partners. It has produced a merged internally consistent dataset of open ocean subsurface measurements for biogeochemical investigations, in particular, studies involving the carbon system. The original focus area was the North Atlantic Ocean, but over time the geographic extent expanded and CARINA now includes data from the entire Atlantic, the Arctic Ocean, and the Southern Ocean.

This dataset includes biological, chemical, discrete sample, optical, physical and profile data collected from HEALY in the Arctic Ocean and Beaufort Sea from 2003-09-11 to 2003-10-18. These data include CHLOROPHYLL A, DISSOLVED OXYGEN, FLUORESCENCE, HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE, NITRATE, NITRITE, PHAEOPHYTIN, Potential temperature (theta), SALINITY, WATER TEMPERATURE, phosphate and silicate. The instruments used to collect these data include CTD and bottle. These data were collected by Louis A. Codispoti of Horn Point Laboratory (UMCES HPL) and James H. Swift of Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) as part of the CARINA/32H120030911 dataset. CDIAC associated the following cruise ID(s) with this dataset: CARINA/32H120030911 The CARINA (CARbon dioxide IN the Atlantic Ocean) data synthesis project is an international collaborative effort of the EU IP CARBOOCEAN, and U.S. partners. It has produced a merged internally consistent dataset of open ocean subsurface measurements for biogeochemical investigations, in particular, studies involving the carbon system. The original focus area was the North Atlantic Ocean, but over time the geographic extent expanded and CARINA now includes data from the entire Atlantic, the Arctic Ocean, and the Southern Ocean.

Temperature profile, algal species, and other data were collected using water bottle or CTD casts in the North Atlantic Ocean from WEST-HINDER and other platforms. Data were collected from 25 August 1903 to 14 November 1997 by International Council for Exploration of the Sea (ICES).

Phytoplankton data were collected using net casts from the USCGC POLAR SEA in the Arctic Ocean. Data were collected from 26 July 1994 to 26 August 1994. Data were submitted by Oregon State University (OSU) with support from the Arctic Ocean Section (Canada/U.S. joint expedition) project.

This dataset includes chemical, discrete sample, physical and profile data collected from YMER in the Arctic Ocean, Barents Sea and North Greenland Sea from 1980-08-11 to 1980-09-19 and retrieved during cruise CARINA/77YM19800811. These data include DISSOLVED OXYGEN, Delta Oxygen - 18, HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE, NITRATE, PHOSPHATE, Potential temperature (theta), SALINITY, SILICATE, TRITIUM and WATER TEMPERATURE. The instruments used to collect these data include CTD and bottle. These data were collected by Leif G. Anderson of University of Gothenburg (GU) as part of the CARINA/77YM19800811 dataset. The CARINA (CARbon dioxide IN the Atlantic Ocean) data synthesis project is an international collaborative effort of the EU IP CARBOOCEAN, and U.S. partners. It has produced a merged internally consistent dataset of open ocean subsurface measurements for biogeochemical investigations, in particular, studies involving the carbon system. The original focus area was the North Atlantic Ocean, but over time the geographic extent expanded and CARINA now includes data from the entire Atlantic, the Arctic Ocean, and the Southern Ocean.

Bottle, CTD, and XBT data were collected in the Arctic, North Atlantic, North Pacific Oceans from the JOHN P. TULLY and other platforms from 14 July 1961 to 02 January 2001. Data include temperature and salinity profiles. Data also include concentration profiles of chlorophyll a, oxygen, nitrate, nitrite, phosphate, and silicate. Data were submitted by the Marine Environmental Data Service (MEDS) of Canada and are in the MEDS ASCII format.