Louisiana continental shelf data collected from February to October 2010. The dataset includes two sets of CTD hydrographic data, plus nutrient, pigment, suspended sediment, surface salinity, and secchi depth measurements. It was acquired by NOAA NCEI as part of a long-term monitoring effort to understand processes contributing to hypoxia.
Use Cases
- Modeling hypoxia causes based on physical and biological process data
- Analyzing water column structure based on CTD hydrographic profiles
- Studying nutrient-pigment relationships in coastal ecosystems
- Assessing water clarity and sediment load based on secchi depth and suspended sediment measurements
Strengths
- Data collected over a 9-month period from February to October 2010
- Includes multiple data types: CTD hydrography, nutrients, pigments, and sediment
- Part of a described long-term coastal Louisiana dataset
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Last updated 2010-10-28 00:00:00; freshness should be verified
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
Provenance
- Source
- NOAA_NCEI
- Collection Method
- Surveys using LUMCON SeaBird 911+ CTD system and a YSI 6820
- Time Range
- 2010-02-02 to 2010-10-28
- Freshness
- Last updated 2010-10-28 00:00:00
- Geography
- Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana continental shelf