R/V Laurence M. Gould collected this data during its year-round operations for the U.S. Antarctic Program. The NSF-supported icebreaker's leg LMG0108 sailed from Punta Arenas, Chile, and returned to the same port, supporting global change studies. The data set, last updated in 2001, was aggregated by the SCIOPS organization.
Use Cases
- Modeling oceanographic conditions in Antarctic waters based on underway data collection.
- Studying global change impacts on polar marine ecosystems based on multidisciplinary research.
- Analyzing ship-track data for logistical planning of Antarctic research voyages.
- Correlating physical and chemical ocean parameters with biological observations.
Strengths
- Data originates from a dedicated NSF-supported research icebreaker.
- Supports multidisciplinary studies in biological, chemical, physical, and oceanographic fields.
Limitations
- Last updated 2001-10-02 23:59:59.999000; freshness should be verified.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- SCIOPS organization, via NASA Earthdata platform.
- Collection Method
- Underway data collected by instruments aboard the R/V Laurence M. Gould.
- Time Range
- Covers the period of leg LMG0108, exact dates unknown.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2001-10-02 23:59:59.999000
- Geography
- Antarctic region, voyage starting and ending in Punta Arenas, Chile.