Tomales Bay Estuarine Biogeochemistry Data from 1987-1996

Six component projects collected data from Tomales Bay, California, over a nine-year period from March 1987 to September 1996. The data were gathered as part of the Land Margin Ecosystem Research and Biogeochemical Reactions in Estuaries projects, focusing on biotic variables, water composition, and sediment fluxes. It provides a multi-year record of estuarine processes.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in water composition parameters like dissolved and particulate load.
• Studying linkages between biotic variables in the water column and sediment nutrient fluxes.
• Modeling biogeochemical reactions in a land margin ecosystem over a multi-year period.
• Calibrating remote sensing data with in-situ measurements of water temperature and descriptive text.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a nine-year period from 1987 to 1996, providing a long-term record.
• Integrates measurements from six distinct component projects, offering a multi-faceted view of the estuary.

Limitations

• The exact row count, column names, and dataset size are unknown across all sources.
• Sources conflict on the last updated date, with one listing 1996-09-21 and another listing 2026-03-05.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI, Land Margin Ecosystem Research (LMER) Project, Biogeochemical Reactions in Estuaries (BRIE) Project.

Collection Method

Collected from fixed platforms and other platforms in Tomales Bay, California.

Time Range

1987-03-19 to 1996-09-21

Freshness

1996-09-21

Geography

Tomales Bay, California, USA.