Franklin Voyage Coral Sea Hydrology Measurements from May 1997
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Description
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Data Centre provides processed hydrology data from the Franklin voyage FR 04/97 (TROPICS97 cruise 1). The voyage collected water samples in the Coral Sea, Gulf of Papua, Solomon and Bismarck Seas from 8-23 May 1997. Parameters measured include temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, phosphate, nitrate, silicate, and nitrite.
Use Cases
Analyze vertical profiles of temperature and salinity across the Coral Sea and Bismarck Seas.
Model relationships between dissolved oxygen concentrations and nutrient levels like phosphate and nitrate.
Map spatial distributions of silicate and nitrite measurements from the Gulf of Papua to Solomon Sea transect.
Strengths
Data is processed and archived by the authoritative CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Data Centre.
Covers a specific 16-day research voyage (8-23 May 1997) with defined geographic scope.
Includes multiple key oceanographic parameters: temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, and four nutrients.
Limitations
Exact sample size (rows) and data structure (columns) are unknown from the provided metadata.
Data is from a single, short voyage in 1997, limiting temporal analysis and modern comparisons.
Primary file formats are HTML and WMS, which may be less convenient for direct numerical analysis than CSV or NetCDF.
Provenance
Source
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
Collection Method
Water samples collected in Niskin bottles at various depths during CTD casts.
Time Range
8-23 May 1997
Freshness
Metadata was last updated in March 2026, but the underlying data is from 1997.
Geography
Coral Sea, Gulf of Papua, Solomon and Bismarck Seas
License is listed as 'notspecified'; users should verify terms with CSIRO before use. Data access may require tools capable of handling WMS services or parsing HTML reports.