North Greenland Sea and Norwegian Sea chemical and physical oceanographic data collected during a 1997 cruise. The dataset includes dissolved inorganic carbon, pH, alkalinity, chlorofluorocarbons, nutrients, and temperature profiles from discrete bottle samples and CTD casts. It was collected by researchers from Gothenburg University as part of the CARINA international synthesis project.
Use Cases
- Modeling ocean carbon sequestration based on dissolved inorganic carbon and alkalinity measurements.
- Studying historical chlorofluorocarbon (CFC-11, CFC-12, CFC-113) distributions as ocean tracers.
- Analyzing nutrient cycles (nitrate, phosphate, silicate) in Arctic and North Atlantic waters.
- Calibrating ocean acidification models using pH and carbonate system data.
- Investigating water column structure using CTD-derived temperature and salinity profiles.
Strengths
- Data is part of the CARINA international synthesis project, aimed at producing an internally consistent dataset for biogeochemical investigations.
- Includes multiple key variables for ocean carbon studies: dissolved inorganic carbon, alkalinity, pH, and chlorofluorocarbons.
- Spatial coverage includes the North Greenland Sea and Norwegian Sea, regions critical for Arctic climate studies.
Limitations
- Last updated 1997-05-22 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- NOAA_NCEI
- Collection Method
- Data collected from discrete sample and profile observations using CTD and bottle instruments aboard the JOHAN HJORT.
- Time Range
- 1997-04-14 to 1997-05-22
- Geography
- North Greenland Sea and Norwegian Sea