DOMES Study: Water Temperature and Biological Data from the North Pacific Ocean, 1978-1979

North Pacific Ocean data collected on three NOAA Ship OCEANOGRAPHER cruises from April 26, 1978, to March 22, 1979. The dataset contains measurements of temperature, salinity, oxygen, nutrients, ATP, chlorophyll, and phaeopigments, submitted by R.J. Ozretich from the University of Washington. Original data from the Deep Ocean Mining Environmental Study (DOMES) was converted into the NODC storage format.

Use Cases

• Modeling historical ocean temperature and salinity profiles based on the reported parameters.
• Analyzing nutrient cycles (phosphate, silicate, nitrate) in the North Pacific Ocean.
• Studying biological productivity through chlorophyll and phaeopigment concentration data.
• Investigating oxygen utilization and water mass characteristics using apparent oxygen utilization (AOU) measurements.

Strengths

• Data collected on three distinct research cruises (RP01OC78, RP13OC78, RP09OC79) over an 11-month period.
• Includes a multi-parameter suite covering physical (temperature, salinity), chemical (oxygen, nutrients), and biological (ATP, chlorophyll) oceanography.
• Data originates from a defined scientific program (Deep Ocean Mining Environmental Study).

Limitations

• Last updated 1979-03-22 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

Ship-based measurements collected on NOAA Ship OCEANOGRAPHER.

Time Range

1978-04 26 to 1979-03-22

Freshness

Historical data; last updated date is 1979-03-22.

Geography

North Pacific Ocean