CARINA/32H120040718 includes biological, chemical, optical, and physical profile data collected from the HEALY vessel in the Arctic Ocean, Beaufort Sea, and Bering Sea from July 18 to August 26, 2004. Louis A. Codispoti of Horn Point Laboratory and James H. Swift of Scripps Institution of Oceanography collected these data using CTD and bottle instruments. The dataset contains measurements of dissolved inorganic carbon, total alkalinity, nutrients, chlorophyll, and other variables for biogeochemical investigations.
Use Cases
- Modeling ocean acidification based on dissolved inorganic carbon and total alkalinity measurements.
- Studying nutrient cycling in Arctic waters based on nitrate, nitrite, phosphate, and silicate data.
- Analyzing phytoplankton biomass distribution based on chlorophyll a and phaeopigment fluorescence.
- Investigating water column structure and properties based on CTD-derived salinity, temperature, and pressure profiles.
Strengths
- Data collection spans a specific 40-day cruise in the Arctic Ocean, Beaufort Sea, and Bering Sea.
- Dataset is part of the international CARINA synthesis project, aimed at producing an internally consistent dataset for biogeochemical investigations.
- Includes a range of measured variables covering biological, chemical, optical, and physical oceanographic parameters.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to a single research cruise in 2004.
Provenance
- Source
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Collection Method
- Discrete sample and profile observations using CTD, bottle, and other instruments.
- Time Range
- 2004-07-18 to 2004-08-26
- Freshness
- Metadata last updated 2026-03-05 23:39:09.351522; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Arctic Ocean, Beaufort Sea, Bering Sea