May 15 to June 6, 1997 data collection from the North Atlantic Ocean during cruise CARINA/06MT19970515. The dataset includes dissolved inorganic carbon, alkalinity, chlorofluorocarbons, dissolved oxygen, nutrients, temperature, and salinity. It was collected by researchers from Marianda Marine Analytics and Data, the Institute of Marine Research, and others using CTD and bottle instruments.
Use Cases
- Calculate ocean carbon system parameters like pCO2 and pH from dissolved_inorganic_carbon and alkalinity measurements.
- Trace water mass age and circulation patterns using chlorofluorocarbon-11 and chlorofluorocarbon-12 as tracers.
- Analyze nutrient distributions and their relationship to biological activity using nitrate, nitrite, phosphate, and silicate columns.
- Study the relationship between water temperature, potential temperature, salinity, and hydrostatic pressure for water column characterization.
Strengths
- Includes 13 key biogeochemical and physical variables per observation profile.
- Data is part of the CARINA synthesis project, aimed at producing an internally consistent, merged dataset.
Limitations
- Temporal coverage is limited to a 23-day cruise in 1997, providing only a snapshot.
- Geographic coverage is restricted to specific stations in the North Atlantic Ocean during the cruise.
- Sample size and row count are unknown, limiting assessment of statistical robustness.
Provenance
- Source
- NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Accession 0113912.
- Collection Method
- Discrete sample and profile observations collected using CTD and bottle instruments.
- Time Range
- 1997-05-15 to 1997-06-06
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- North Atlantic Ocean, specific stations during the METEOR cruise.