The file BG2013_DATASETS.tar contains the data repository related to the publication:
Duteil, O., Koeve, W., Oschlies, A., Bianchi, D., Galbraith, E., Kriest, I., and Matear, R.: A novel estimate of ocean oxygen utilisation points to a reduced rate of respiration in the ocean interior, Biogeosciences, 10, 7723-7738, doi:10.5194/bg-10-7723-2013, 2013.

The repository includes the following model output files. 
- BLImod.nc (om1p7-BLINGv0)
- CSImod.nc (CSIRO)
- ECCmod.nc (ECCO2-TMM)
- MITmod.nc (MIT28-TMM)
- MOMmod.nc (MOMP2A)
- UVImod.nc (UVIC2.8)

An observational dataset is also included: WOAobs.nc (World Ocean Atlas 2009)

Each file contains the following variables : 
- O2 (oxygen : mmol.m-3) 
- O2SAT (oxygen saturation : mmol.m-3) 
- O2PRE (preformed oxygen : mmol.m-3) (only models) 
- O2PRE_EST (estimated preformed oxygen using the technique described in the article: mmol.m-3)
- TMP (temperature: degC)
- SAL (salinity: psu)

The AOU (Apparent Oxygen Utilization), TOU (True Oxygen Utilization) and EOU (Estimated Oxygen Utilization) can be easily computed as : 
AOU = O2SAT - O2 
TOU = O2PRE - O2
EOU = O2PRE_EST - O2

The original model output was on different, partly irregular, horizontal and vertical grids. As described in our paper, model output was first regridded onto a regular 1*1 degree grid, i.e. the grid of the observational dataset World Ocean Atlas 2009 (WOA2009). In case the shallowest depth layer of a model is deeper than some levels of the WOA2009 grid, these shallower levels have been left with no values in the regridded dataset. Regridding is inacurate north of 70N and close to the coasts due to resolution issues in coarse models. The regridded dataset was used in the analysis and is given in this repository. The model output represents annually averaged tracer distributions at model equilibrium, i.e. after several thousand years of model spin-up.

The format of the files is Netcdf. You may find software to read netcdf files and visualize their content at http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/software.html. We recommend the free software Ferret (http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/Ferret/).

Please refer to the publication below for more details and references to the original model descriptions: 
Duteil, O., Koeve, W., Oschlies, A., Bianchi, D., Galbraith, E., Kriest, I., and Matear, R.: A novel estimate of ocean oxygen utilisation points to a reduced rate of respiration in the ocean interior, Biogeosciences, 10, 7723-7738, doi:10.5194/bg-10-7723-2013, 2013.