Hydrographic data collected during the second U.S. Southern Ocean GLOBEC broad-scale survey cruise (NBP01 04) from April to August 2001. The dataset likely contains temperature and salinity profiles to describe water mass distribution and circulation on the west Antarctic Peninsula continental shelf near Marguerite Bay. The data was archived by NOAA NCEI.
Use Cases
- Modeling Antarctic krill distribution based on water mass characteristics mentioned in the description
- Analyzing changes in water structure over a two-month period between survey cruises
- Comparing circulation patterns with drifter, moored current, and shipboard ADCP measurements
- Studying the upwelling of Upper Circumpolar Deep Water at specific sites in the study region
Strengths
- Data collected during a dedicated broad-scale survey cruise (NBP01 04) in 2001
- Focuses on a region where historical hydrographic data are limited, particularly outside austral summer
Limitations
- Last updated 2001-08-25 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
- Collection Method
- Data collected during the U.S. Southern Ocean GLOBEC program survey cruise.
- Time Range
- 2001-04 to 2001-08
- Geography
- Southern Oceans, west Antarctic Peninsula continental shelf near Marguerite Bay