Arctic Ocean Optical and Temperature Measurements from 2002-2003

Optical measurements collected in the Arctic Ocean east of Greenland and north of Scandinavia. The dataset covers observations from 2002 and 2003, managed by the OB_DAAC organization. Data is available in ISO and BIN file formats.

Use Cases

• Analyzing seasonal changes in Arctic Ocean temperature and salinity.
• Studying the relationship between optical properties and water chemistry in polar regions.
• Modeling light penetration and its impact on Arctic marine ecosystems.
• Investigating interannual variability in oceanographic conditions north of Scandinavia.

Strengths

• Data provides a focused temporal snapshot of Arctic conditions across two years (2002-2003).
• Cross-platform presence on NASA Earthdata and Data.gov indicates established curation and importance.
• Tags from Data.gov specify concrete measurement domains: ocean-optics, ocean-temperature, and salinity-density.

Limitations

• No column names or row counts are provided by any source, limiting immediate usability.
• License is inconsistently reported as 'other-license-specified' or 'None', requiring verification.
• Author and exact dataset size are unknown across all platforms.

Provenance

Source

OB_DAAC

Collection Method

Measurements taken in the Arctic Ocean.

Time Range

2002 to 2003

Freshness

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Geography

Arctic Ocean, east of Greenland and north of Scandinavia