Caribbean Sea, Coastal Waters of Florida, Gulf of Mexico, and multiple ocean basins contain surface underway data collected from NOAA Ship RONALD H. BROWN between February and December 2006. The dataset includes measurements of air-sea carbon dioxide partial pressure, salinity, sea surface temperature, wind, and fluorescence. Rik Wanninkhof of NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory collected the data as part of the R/V Ronald Brown 2006 Underway Data set.
Use Cases
- Modeling air-sea carbon dioxide flux based on partial pressure measurements.
- Analyzing correlations between sea surface temperature and carbon dioxide levels.
- Studying spatial patterns of ocean salinity and fluorescence.
- Validating satellite-derived oceanographic and meteorological data.
Strengths
- Data covers multiple ocean basins including the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic/Pacific Oceans.
- Includes simultaneous measurements of chemical, meteorological, optical, and physical variables from a single research vessel.
- Time range is precisely defined from 2006-02-16 to 2006-12-02.
Limitations
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Last updated 2006-12-02 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
Provenance
- Source
- NOAA_NCEI
- Collection Method
- Surface underway observations using barometric pressure sensors, carbon dioxide gas analyzers, thermosalinographs, and equilibrators.
- Time Range
- 2006-02-16 to 2006-12-02
- Freshness
- 2006-12-02 00:00:00
- Geography
- Caribbean Sea, Coastal Waters of Florida, Coastal Waters of Texas, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Gulf of Mexico, North Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific Ocean, South Atlantic Ocean, South Pacific Ocean