North Atlantic Ocean Carbon Chemistry Profiles from the CARINA Project, May-June 2000

CARINA project data from the North Atlantic Ocean includes dissolved inorganic carbon, alkalinity, and nutrient measurements from a 2000 research cruise. These discrete sample and profile observations were collected using CTD and bottle instruments aboard the GAUSS. Douglas W. R. Wallace of Dalhousie University and Klaus-Peter Koltermann of the Federal Maritime Agency - Hamburg contributed to this WOCE AR19f dataset.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean carbon uptake and storage based on dissolved inorganic carbon and alkalinity measurements
• Analyzing nutrient distributions and ocean productivity based on nitrate, phosphate, and silicate data
• Studying water mass properties and circulation based on salinity, temperature, and dissolved oxygen profiles
• Calibrating biogeochemical models for the Atlantic Ocean using the CARINA project's internally consistent dataset

Strengths

• Data is part of the CARINA synthesis project, an international effort to produce an internally consistent dataset for biogeochemical investigations
• Includes key carbon system variables like dissolved inorganic carbon and alkalinity alongside physical and nutrient measurements
• Temporal coverage is precisely defined from 2000-05-06 to 2000-06-06 during a specific research cruise

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to a single cruise in the North Atlantic Ocean

Provenance

Source

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce

Collection Method

Discrete sample and profile observations using CTD and bottle instruments during cruise 06GA20000506

Time Range

2000-05-06 to 2000-06-06

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-05 23:12:15.811668; freshness should be verified

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean