Surface underway data collected from the SOYO-MARU research vessel in the Japan Sea, North Pacific Ocean, and Philippine Sea between November 2010 and July 2011. The dataset includes measurements of the partial pressure of carbon dioxide in water, salinity, sea surface temperature, and barometric pressure. Tsuneo Ono and Tadafumi Ichikawa of the National Research Institute of Fisheries Science collected these data using a Carbon dioxide (CO2) gas analyzer and other instruments.
Use Cases
- Modeling ocean carbon sink variability based on partial pressure of CO2 measurements.
- Analyzing correlations between sea surface temperature and carbon dioxide fugacity.
- Studying regional marine meteorology patterns based on barometric pressure and salinity data.
- Calibrating or validating satellite-derived sea surface CO2 estimates with in-situ measurements.
Strengths
- Data covers three distinct ocean regions over an 8-month period.
- Includes concurrent chemical, physical, and meteorological variables for integrated analysis.
- Collected by named researchers from a recognized fisheries science institute.
Limitations
- Row count and file size are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Last updated 2011-07-17 00:00:00; freshness should be verified for contemporary studies.
Provenance
- Source
- NOAA_NCEI (NCEI Accession 0117672), originally from NASA Earthdata.
- Collection Method
- Surface underway observations from the SOYO-MARU research vessel using a Carbon dioxide (CO2) gas analyzer and other instruments.
- Time Range
- 2010-11-12 to 2011-07-17
- Freshness
- 2011-07-17 00:00:00
- Geography
- Japan Sea, North Pacific Ocean, Philippine Sea