Northwest Atlantic Water Physics and Chemistry Data from 1951-1957

Water physics and chemistry data were collected from bottle casts from multiple ships and platforms in the Northwest Atlantic from January 10, 1951, to April 18, 1957. The data were submitted by the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography as part of the NAVOCEANO Harbor Defense Study, in association with Cornell University. Data were processed by the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) into its standard F004 Water Physics and Chemistry format.

Use Cases

• Analyzing historical water column temperature and salinity profiles based on physical parameters mentioned in the description
• Modeling nutrient distributions (e.g., nitrate, phosphate) based on chemical parameters mentioned in the description
• Studying dissolved oxygen concentrations and their spatial-temporal variability in the mid-20th century Atlantic
• Investigating relationships between physical parameters like density (sigma-t) and chemical constituents

Strengths

• Data covers a multi-year time range from 1951 to 1957
• Includes both physical and chemical parameters as described in the NODC F004 format
• Data was processed and standardized to a known archival format (NODC F004)

Limitations

• Last updated 1957-04-18 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

University of Rhode Island; Graduate School of Oceanography (URI), submitted to NOAA NCEI.

Collection Method

Collected from bottle casts from multiple ships and other platforms.

Time Range

1951-01-10 to 1957-04-18

Freshness

Historical dataset; last updated date is 1957-04-18.

Geography

NW Atlantic (limit-40 W)