The Gulf of Alaska is the geographic scope for this dataset. It likely contains profiles of sound velocity, temperature, and salinity collected from underway vessel profilers and CTD casts. The data was collected by NOAA Ship Fairweather for project PWS OPR-P132-FA-08 between September 6 and October 3, 2008.
Use Cases
- Modeling underwater sound propagation for acoustic surveys (inferred from domain, verify after download)
- Analyzing temperature and salinity gradients in the Gulf of Alaska (inferred from domain, verify after download)
- Calibrating oceanographic instruments using reference CTD data (inferred from domain, verify after download)
Strengths
- Published on nasa_earthdata.
- Data collection period is explicitly defined: 2008-09-06 to 2008-10-03.
- Organization is NOAA_NCEI.
Limitations
- Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download.
- Last updated 2008-10-03 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
- Likely collected from underway vessel profilers and CTD casts.
- Time Range
- 2008-09-06 to 2008-10-03
- Freshness
- 2008-10-03 00:00:00
- Geography
- Gulf of Alaska