Southern Ocean Profile Data from R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer, April-September 2002

Profile data collected by the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer in the Southern Oceans from April to September 2002. The dataset was created in support of the Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics Program and is published by NOAA NCEI under accession 0001209. The last update was recorded on September 14, 2002.

Use Cases

• Modeling Southern Ocean physical properties and ecosystem dynamics (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Analyzing temporal changes in oceanographic profiles from a specific research cruise (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Validating regional climate or biogeochemical models with in-situ data (inferred from domain, verify after download)

Strengths

• Published by NOAA NCEI, an authoritative data repository.
• Data collection is temporally bounded to a specific 6-month cruise from April to September 2002.

Limitations

• Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download.
• Last updated 2002-09-14 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Collected by the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer research vessel.

Time Range

April - September 2002

Freshness

Last updated 2002-09 14 00:00:00; historical dataset.

Geography

Southern Oceans