NOAA_NCEI provides biological and oceanographic data collected from bottle casts in the NW Atlantic Ocean's Cariaco Basin. The data were gathered from the vessel HERMANO GINES between January 2002 and May 2004 in support of the CARIACO program. This program studies links between surface primary production, physical forcing variables like wind, and the settling flux of particulate carbon.
Use Cases
- Analyze temporal trends in surface primary production using time-series data from bottle casts.
- Model the relationship between wind speed (a physical forcing variable) and particulate carbon flux.
- Study spatial and temporal variability in biological data across the continental shelf of Venezuela.
Strengths
- Data collection spans a multi-year period from January 2002 to May 2004.
- Focuses on a specific, scientifically significant location: the Cariaco Basin on the Venezuelan continental shelf.
Limitations
- The specific sample size, number of bottle casts, and measured variables are unknown.
- Data is temporally stale, with the last update recorded in May 2004.
Provenance
- Source
- NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), Accession 0002316.
- Collection Method
- Data collected from bottle casts deployed from the vessel HERMANO GINES.
- Time Range
- 16 January 2002 to 18 May 2004.
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- NW Atlantic Ocean, specifically the Cariaco Basin on the continental shelf of Venezuela.