Observations from Biogeochemical Argo profiling floats deployed during RV Investigator voyages. The floats collect high-resolution measurements of ocean physical and biogeochemical properties, including temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, pH, nitrate, chlorophyll fluorescence, particulate backscatter, and solar radiation. These datasets support investigations into the ocean's biological carbon pump, anthropogenic CO₂ uptake, deoxygenation, and acidification.
Use Cases
- Modeling variability in the ocean's biological carbon pump based on biogeochemical property measurements.
- Investigating long-term trends in ocean deoxygenation and acidification based on dissolved oxygen and pH data.
- Validating satellite-based ocean colour products based on in situ chlorophyll fluorescence and particulate backscatter data.
- Analyzing spatial and temporal coverage of key biogeochemical variables in the Southern Hemisphere based on float deployment patterns.
Strengths
- High-resolution measurements of multiple ocean physical and biogeochemical properties.
- Data contributes to sustained ocean observing efforts, particularly in the Southern Hemisphere.
- Supports investigations into multiple critical climate processes.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- File formats include PNG and HTML, suggesting visual or summary outputs rather than raw tabular data.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Collection Method
- Deployed from RV Investigator voyages.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-05 01:22:27.575022; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Southern Hemisphere oceans