North Pacific Ocean Carbon and Hydrographic Profiles from Cruise WK0603, March 2006

North Pacific Ocean data collected from the WAKATAKA MARU between 2006-03-01 and 2006-03-10. It includes dissolved inorganic carbon, temperature, salinity, nitrate, phosphate, and silicate measurements from CTD and bottle samples. The data were collected by researchers from the National Research Institute of Fisheries Science and Tohoku National Fisheries Research Institute as part of the PACIFICA project.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean carbon uptake and acidification based on dissolved inorganic carbon measurements.
• Analyzing nutrient distributions (nitrate, phosphate, silicate) in the North Pacific Ocean.
• Studying water column structure and properties using CTD-derived temperature, salinity, and pressure profiles.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 10-day research cruise in March 2006, providing a temporal snapshot.
• Includes multiple key oceanographic variables: dissolved inorganic carbon, nutrients, temperature, and salinity.
• Data collection is attributed to specific research institutes and a named international project (PACIFICA).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to a single, short-duration cruise.

Provenance

Source

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce

Collection Method

Discrete sample and profile observations using CTD, Coulometer for DIC measurement, and bottle instruments.

Time Range

2006-03-01 to 2006-03-10

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03 05 22:41:52.944689; freshness should be verified.

Geography

North Pacific Ocean