Surface underway data from the Atlantic Companion vessel in the Irish Sea and North Atlantic Ocean during March and April 2015. The dataset includes measurements of atmospheric and aquatic carbon dioxide partial pressure, salinity, sea surface temperature, and barometric pressure. Researchers from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and Leibniz Institut Fur Meereswissenschaften collected this data using gas analyzers, equilibrators, and thermosalinographs.
Use Cases
- Modeling air-sea carbon dioxide flux based on partial pressure measurements.
- Analyzing correlations between sea surface temperature and carbon dioxide solubility.
- Studying regional carbon dynamics in the North Atlantic based on underway surface observations.
- Validating satellite-derived ocean carbon data with in-situ salinity and temperature measurements.
Strengths
- Data covers a specific 38-day period from 2015-03-01 to 2015-04-07.
- Includes concurrent measurements of atmospheric and aquatic carbon dioxide partial pressure.
- Collected by named researchers from recognized oceanographic institutions GEOMAR and Leibniz Institut.
Limitations
- Last updated 2015-04-07 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 (Accession 0157380)
- Collection Method
- Surface underway observations using Barometric pressure sensor, Carbon dioxide (CO2) gas analyzer, Shower head chamber equilibrator, and thermosalinographs.
- Time Range
- 2015-03-01 to 2015-04-07
- Freshness
- 2015-04-07
- Geography
- Irish Sea, St. George's Channel, North Atlantic Ocean