PATEX Project: Oceanographic Data from Argentine Shelf Cruises

Argentinean shelf-break waters were studied by the Brazilian PATagonia EXperiment (PATEX) Project across seven research cruises from 2004 to 2009. The dataset characterizes environmental constraints, phytoplankton assemblages, primary production rates, bio-optical properties, and air-sea CO2 fluxes during austral spring and summer. It was produced by the project team and is associated with a 2011 publication by Garcia et al.

Use Cases

• Analyzing spatial and temporal patterns of air-sea CO2 fluxes using cruise track data.
• Studying the relationship between bio-optical characteristics and phytoplankton assemblages.
• Modeling primary production rates based on environmental constraints like temperature and salinity.
• Investigating the biogeochemical properties of the Argentinean shelf-break region during austral seasons.

Strengths

• Data collection spans seven distinct research cruises, providing repeated seasonal observations.
• Covers multiple interconnected oceanographic variables including chemistry, biology, and optics.
• Project findings are peer-reviewed and published in a scientific journal (Garcia et al., 2011).

Limitations

• Specific column names, row counts, and dataset size are not provided by any source.
• Sources conflict on license information: one specifies 'other-license-specified', others list 'None'.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Collection Method

Field measurements collected during seven oceanographic research cruises.

Time Range

2004 to 2009

Freshness

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Geography

Argentinean shelf-break in the South Atlantic Ocean