From March 29 to November 13, 2014, surface underway data were collected aboard NOAA Ship Henry B. Bigelow along the US Northeast coast in the North Atlantic Ocean. The dataset includes measurements of carbon dioxide mole fraction, fugacity, sea surface temperature, and salinity. Rik Wanninkhof and Denis Pierrot of NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory collected these data using a carbon dioxide gas analyzer and shower head equilibrator.
Use Cases
- Modeling air-sea carbon dioxide flux based on fugacity difference measurements.
- Analyzing seasonal variability in coastal ocean carbon chemistry based on time-series data.
- Calibrating satellite-derived sea surface salinity and temperature products using in-situ measurements.
- Studying the relationship between sea surface temperature and carbon dioxide partial pressure.
Strengths
- Data covers a specific 7.5-month period from March to November 2014.
- Includes multiple directly measured chemical and physical variables, such as CO2 mole fraction and sea surface salinity.
- Collected by a named research vessel and principal investigators from a NOAA laboratory.
Limitations
- Last updated 2014-11-13 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
- US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory.
- Collection Method
- Surface underway observations using carbon dioxide gas analyzer and shower head equilibrator.
- Time Range
- 2014-03-29 to 2014-11-13
- Freshness
- One-time collection in 2014.
- Geography
- North Atlantic Ocean, US North East coast.