CARINA is an international collaborative data synthesis project for biogeochemical investigations. This subset includes discrete measurements of dissolved inorganic carbon, alkalinity, nutrients, and physical variables collected via CTD and bottle instruments aboard the SEWARD JOHNSON in the North Atlantic Ocean during January-February 2001. Data were collected by researchers from the University of Georgia and the University of Southern California.
Use Cases
- Modeling ocean carbon uptake and acidification based on dissolved inorganic carbon and alkalinity measurements
- Studying nutrient cycling in the North Atlantic based on nitrate, phosphate, and silicate data
- Analyzing physical oceanographic conditions based on temperature, salinity, and hydrostatic pressure profiles
- Validating biogeochemical models using the internally consistent CARINA merged dataset
Strengths
- Data is part of the CARINA project, an international effort producing an internally consistent merged dataset
- Includes multiple key biogeochemical variables: dissolved inorganic carbon, alkalinity, nutrients, and physical parameters
- Specific temporal coverage from 2001-01-02 to 2001-02-18
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 bias inherent to a single cruise in the North Atlantic Ocean
Provenance
- Source
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Collection Method
- Data collected from discrete sample and profile observations using CTD, bottle and other instruments
- Time Range
- 2001-01-02 to 2001-02-18
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-05 22:56:03.521495; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- North Atlantic Ocean