CARINA Ocean Carbon Chemistry Profiles from the North Greenland and Norwegian Seas, 1994

A 1994-08-26 to 1994-09 10 cruise collected chemical and physical oceanographic data from the HAAKON MOSBY research vessel in the North Greenland Sea and Norwegian Sea. The data include dissolved inorganic carbon, alkalinity, dissolved oxygen, nutrients, salinity, and temperature, collected using CTD and bottle instruments. Truls Johannessen of the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research and Lars G. Golmen of the Norwegian Institute for Water Research contributed this data as part of the CARINA (CARbon dioxide IN the Atlantic Ocean) international synthesis project.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean carbon uptake and acidification based on dissolved inorganic carbon and alkalinity measurements.
• Analyzing nutrient distributions (nitrate, phosphate, silicate) for biogeochemical studies.
• Studying water mass properties and circulation using concurrent salinity and potential temperature profiles.
• Calibrating and validating oceanographic models with high-quality, internally consistent CARINA data.

Strengths

• Data is part of the CARINA synthesis project, which produced an internally consistent, merged dataset for biogeochemical investigations.
• Includes multiple key variables for carbon system studies: dissolved inorganic carbon, alkalinity, and dissolved oxygen.
• Covers a specific geographic region (North Greenland Sea and Norwegian Sea) during a defined period in 1994.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Data was last updated 2026-03-05 23:27:50.127776; freshness should be verified for contemporary studies.

Provenance

Source

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce

Collection Method

Discrete sample and profile observations using CTD and bottle instruments.

Time Range

1994-08-26 to 1994-09-10

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-05 23:27:50.127776.

Geography

North Greenland Sea and Norwegian Sea