Pressure and Water Data from R/V Thomas G. Thompson, Arabian Sea 1995

NCEI Accession 9800020 contains pressure and water data collected by the research vessel Thomas G. Thompson in the Arabian Sea. The dataset covers a specific cruise period from August 18 to December 27, 1995. It is published by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) on the NASA Earthdata platform.

Use Cases

• Analyzing water column pressure profiles to study ocean dynamics (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Correlating physical water properties with regional climatic conditions (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Validating or supplementing oceanographic models for the Arabian Sea (inferred from domain, verify after download)

Strengths

• Published by NOAA_NCEI, an authoritative environmental data institution.
• Has a precise temporal coverage from 1995-08-18 to 1995-12-27.

Limitations

• Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 1995-12-27 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Likely collected via shipboard sensors on the R/V Thomas G. Thompson.

Time Range

1995-08 18 to 1995-12-27

Freshness

Historical dataset; last updated date corresponds to the end of the data collection period.

Geography

Arabian Sea