A regional ocean dataset for the Coastal China Sea

A regional ocean database for Coastal China Sea (RODCCS) with original data from six repositories. The database covers the region of 116-135°E in longitude and 20-42°N in latitude, which embraces the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and a part of the Sea of Japan. Each variable, i.e., temperature, salinity, and dissolved oxygen, silicate, nitrate, nitrite, ammonium, phosphate, Chlorophyll a, dissolved inorganic carbon, dissolved organic carbon, particulate organic carbon concentrations, is quality-controlled (QCed) and stored in a Network Common Data Format (NetCDF) file. RODCCS includes twelve NetCDF files and each has a unified structure.