OCSEAP Environmental Data from 1946 to 1990

Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program (OCSEAP) data contains physical, biological, chemical, and meteorological measurements collected from 1946-01-01 to 1990-10-11. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration processed the data into 25 NODC standard file formats. Information was gathered from various platforms and organizations.

Use Cases

• Analyze long-term trends in physical and chemical oceanographic parameters across the 44-year time_range.
• Correlate biological observation data with meteorological measurements from the collection period.
• Study environmental changes in specific geographic locations like Franklin Bluffs or Cape Halkett referenced in the tags.

Strengths

• Covers a 44-year time_range from 1946 to 1990, enabling long-term environmental studies.
• Contains multi-domain data including physical, biological, chemical, and meteorological variables.
• Processed into 25 distinct NODC standard file formats (e.g., F013, F015, F022) for structured access.

Limitations

• Specific column names, row counts, and data structure details are unknown, complicating direct analysis.
• Primary file formats are PDF and HTML, which are not ideal for computational analysis without significant extraction.
• Geographic coverage is implied by tags but not explicitly defined, potentially limiting spatial analysis.

Provenance

Source

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce

Collection Method

Data were collected from various platforms and organizations as part of the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program (OCSEAP) and processed by NODC.

Time Range

1946-01-01 to 1990-10-11

Freshness

Metadata was last updated on 2026-03-05, but the underlying data collection ended in 1990.

Geography

Outer Continental Shelf regions, with specific locations indicated by tags such as Franklin Bluffs, Dry Bay, and Cape Halkett.