Courtney Water Temperature and Ocean Data, June-July 1970

From June 17 to July 13, 1970, this dataset contains water temperature and other oceanographic measurements from the platform 'Courtney'. The data is published by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) under accession number 7000886 and is hosted on the NASA Earthdata platform.

Use Cases

• Analyzing short-term sea surface temperature variability (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Calibrating or validating historical oceanographic models (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Studying seasonal oceanographic patterns for a specific location (inferred from domain, verify after download)

Strengths

• Published by the authoritative NOAA NCEI organization.
• Has a precise temporal coverage from 1970-06-17 to 1970-07 13.
• Hosted on the NASA Earthdata platform, suggesting structured archival.

Limitations

• Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download.
• Last updated 1970-07-13 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Likely collected via ship or buoy-based oceanographic sensors.

Time Range

1970-06-17 to 1970-07-13

Freshness

Last updated 1970-07-13 00:00:00.

Geography

Location implied by platform name 'Courtney'; specific coordinates are unknown.