Arctic Ocean CTD Measurements from Kapitan Dranitsyn, 2009

2009 data from the Arctic Ocean collected by the vessel Kapitan Dranitsyn. The dataset likely contains temperature, salinity, and pressure measurements from Conductivity, Temperature, Depth (CTD) instruments. It is published by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) under accession number 0062621.

Use Cases

• Analyzing vertical profiles of ocean temperature and salinity (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Calibrating or validating regional ocean circulation models (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Studying seasonal or spatial variability in Arctic Ocean hydrography (inferred from domain, verify after download)

Strengths

• Published by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), an authoritative source.
• Data collection is temporally and geographically specific (Arctic Ocean, 2009).
• Last update recorded as 2009-09-03 00:00:00.

Limitations

• Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count, file formats, and sample data are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Measurements collected using CTD instruments on the vessel Kapitan Dranitsyn.

Time Range

2009

Freshness

Last updated 2009-09 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Arctic Ocean