GLOBEC: Antarctic Shelf Oceanographic Measurements from 2001

GLOBEC project data collected by the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer on the western Antarctic shelf between April and September 2001. The dataset includes measurements of temperature, salinity, oxygen, and photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) to understand ecosystem responses to physical forcing. It was contributed by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI).

Use Cases

• Modeling Antarctic shelf water mass properties based on temperature and salinity profiles.
• Studying marine primary productivity dynamics based on photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) data.
• Analyzing oceanographic conditions for ecosystem forecasting, as mentioned in the GLOBEC program aims.
• Investigating the response of polar marine populations to physical forcing, a core GLOBEC objective.

Strengths

• Data collected under the international GLOBEC program initiated by SCOR and IOC-UNESCO.
• Includes multiple concurrent oceanographic variables (temperature, salinity, oxygen, PAR).
• Focuses on a specific, ecologically significant region (western Antarctic shelf) and time period (Apr-Sep 2001).

Limitations

• Last updated 2001-06-01 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Ship-based measurements collected by the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer.

Time Range

April - September 2001

Freshness

Data from 2001; static historical collection.

Geography

Western Antarctic shelf