CARIACO Project: Caribbean Sea CTD and Bottle Cast Data, 2010-2011

Physical, chemical, and biological data were collected from the Caribbean Sea and continental shelf of Venezuela aboard the R/V HERMANO GINES. The dataset supports the Carbon Retention in a Colored Ocean (CARIACO) project and covers the period from February 10, 2010, to July 07, 2011. It is published by NOAA NCEI and accessed via NASA EarthData.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean carbon flux and retention (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Analyzing relationships between physical water properties and biological communities (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Studying temporal variability in coastal ocean chemistry (inferred from domain, verify after download)

Strengths

• Published on the authoritative NASA EarthData platform.
• Managed by NOAA NCEI, a trusted data repository.
• Covers a specific 17-month time range from 2010 to 2011.

Limitations

• Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2011-07-07 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data collected from CTD and bottle casts from the R/V HERMANO GINES.

Time Range

February 10, — 2010 to July 07, 2011

Freshness

Last updated 2011-07-07 00:00:00

Geography

Caribbean Sea and continental shelf of Venezuela