FAU Land/Ocean Biogeochemical Observatory (LOBO) collected oceanographic and surface meteorological data from a moored station in the Coastal Waters of Florida and North Atlantic Ocean. The Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (SECOORA) assembled and submitted the data to NODC, covering the period from 2014-02-21 to 2014-11-04. Data is formatted in netCDF files following Climate and Forecast (CF) and Attribute Convention for Data Discovery (ACDD) metadata conventions.
Use Cases
- Modeling coastal water quality based on in-situ oceanographic measurements.
- Analyzing surface meteorological patterns in the North Atlantic Ocean.
- Studying biogeochemical cycles in Florida's coastal waters.
- Validating satellite-derived ocean data with moored station observations.
Strengths
- Data follows established Climate and Forecast (CF) and ACDD metadata conventions.
- Collected from a specific, named in-situ moored station (lobo) over an 8-month period in 2014.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Last updated 2014-11-04 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Florida Atlantic University (FAU) Land/Ocean Biogeochemical Observatory (LOBO), assembled by Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (SECOORA).
- Collection Method
- Collected from an in-situ moored station.
- Time Range
- 2014-02-21 to 2014-11-04
- Freshness
- Data collection ended in 2014; the accession was updated monthly during the collection period.
- Geography
- Coastal Waters of Florida and North Atlantic Ocean