Water temperature and other data collected by the USCGC Barataria vessel. The data covers a two-day period from December 20 to December 21, 1966. It is published by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) via the NASA Earthdata platform.
Use Cases
- Analyzing short-term ocean temperature variability (inferred from domain, verify after download)
- Calibrating historical climate models with in-situ measurements (inferred from domain, verify after download)
- Studying vessel-based data collection methods (inferred from domain, verify after download)
Strengths
- Published by NOAA_NCEI, a recognized environmental data authority.
- Data has a precise temporal coverage of 1966-12-20 to 1966-12-21.
Limitations
- Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Last updated 1966-12-21 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
Provenance
- Source
- NOAA_NCEI
- Time Range
- 1966-12-20 to 1966-12-21