NCEI Accession 0115764 includes chemical, physical, and profile data collected from the L'ATALANTE research vessel in the Gulf of Guinea, North Atlantic Ocean, and South Atlantic Ocean from January to April 1995. The data were collected by researchers from Brookhaven National Laboratory, GEOMAR, and other institutions using CTD and bottle instruments as part of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) Hydrographic Program. The final WOCE collection covers approximately 23,000 stations from 94 cruises between 1990 and 1998.
Use Cases
- Modeling ocean carbon uptake based on dissolved inorganic carbon and alkalinity measurements.
- Analyzing ocean circulation patterns based on temperature, salinity, and chlorofluorocarbon tracer data.
- Studying nutrient distributions in the Atlantic Ocean based on nitrate, phosphate, and silicate data.
Strengths
- Data collected as part of the major World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) program.
- Includes multiple chemical tracers like chlorofluorocarbons, helium isotopes, and tritium.
- Associated with a specific cruise ID (WOCE_A14_A13) providing context.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Last updated 1995-04-02; freshness should be verified.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
- Collection Method
- Discrete sample and profile observations using CTD and bottle instruments.
- Time Range
- 1995-01-13 to 1995-04-02
- Freshness
- 1995-04-02 00:00:00
- Geography
- Gulf of Guinea, North Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic Ocean