A 1993-07-30 to 1993-08-15 cruise collected chemical and physical oceanographic data in the Barents Sea, North Greenland Sea, and Norwegian Sea. The data includes dissolved inorganic carbon, alkalinity, pH, nutrients, and temperature, collected via CTD and bottle instruments by researchers from CSIRO and the University of Bergen. This dataset is part of the CARINA project, an international synthesis effort for biogeochemical investigations.
Use Cases
- Modeling ocean acidification based on pH and alkalinity measurements.
- Studying carbon sequestration in polar seas based on dissolved inorganic carbon data.
- Analyzing nutrient cycles in Arctic ecosystems based on nitrate, phosphate, and silicate concentrations.
- Investigating water column structure based on temperature, salinity, and hydrostatic pressure profiles.
Strengths
- Data is part of the CARINA project, an international effort to produce an internally consistent merged dataset for biogeochemical studies.
- Includes multiple key variables for carbon system studies: dissolved inorganic carbon, alkalinity, pH, and nutrients.
- Provides geospatial context with measurements from three distinct Arctic seas.
Limitations
- Last updated 1993-08-15 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 (NODC Accession 0113559)
- Collection Method
- Discrete sample and profile observations using CTD and bottle instruments.
- Time Range
- 1993-07-30 to 1993-08-15
- Geography
- Barents Sea, North Greenland Sea, Norwegian Sea