Southern Ocean Temperature, Salinity, and Oxygen Profiles from 1995 WOCE Cruise

FORMEX cruise 09AR9501_1 collected discrete profile measurements of temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, and nutrients in the Southern Ocean from July to September 1995. These data were gathered by Nathan Bindoff of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization as part of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE). The WOCE program aimed to understand the ocean's role in climate, with this cruise contributing to a final collection covering approximately 23,000 stations from 94 cruises between 1990 and 1998.

Use Cases

• Modeling historical ocean circulation patterns based on temperature and salinity profiles.
• Analyzing dissolved oxygen and nutrient distributions for biogeochemical studies.
• Calibrating or validating climate models using Southern Ocean data from a specific 1995 cruise.
• Studying seasonal water column properties in the Southern Ocean during the austral winter.

Strengths

• Data is part of the major World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE), a well-known climate research program.
• Covers a specific 47-day research cruise in the Southern Ocean from 1995-07-17 to 1995-09-02.
• Includes multiple key oceanographic variables: temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, and nutrients.

Limitations

• Last updated 1995-09-02 00:00:00; 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

NOAA_NCEI (National Centers for Environmental Information)

Collection Method

Discrete sample and profile observations collected from the R/V Aurora Australis research vessel.

Time Range

1995-07-17 to 1995-09-02

Freshness

1995-09-02 00:00:00

Geography

Southern Ocean