OA-ICC Data Compilation and Portal

The number of studies investigating the effects of ocean acidification on marine organisms and communities increases every year. Results are not easily comparable since the carbonate chemistry and ancillary data are not always reported in similar units and scales and are not calculated using similar sets of constants. To facilitate data comparison, a data compilation hosted by the PANGAEA Data Publisher was initiated by the European Network of Excellence for Ocean Ecosystems Analysis (EUR-OCEANS) and the first large-scale European Project on Ocean Acidification (EPOCA) in 2008. It has been maintained within the framework of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) project Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre (OA-ICC) in collaboration with Xiamen University and the Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche (LOV), France, since 2013. By November 2023, a total of 1501 datasets (over 25 million data points) from 1554 papers had been archived. To easily filter and access relevant biological response data from this compilation, a user-friendly portal (https://oa-icc.ipsl.fr) was launched in 2018.

Reference: Yang, Y., Brockmann, P., Galdino, C., et al. (2024). An update of data compilation on the biological response to ocean acidification and overview of the OA-ICC data portal. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 16, 3771–3780. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-3771-2024