Coastal waters of the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida were sampled from 2010-07-28 to 2017-08-30. The data includes temperature, salinity, depth, fluorometry, transmissivity, and photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) from CTD casts. It was collected by NOAA ships Nancy Foster, Savannah, and Pisces in support of the Southeast Fisheries Independent Survey (SEFIS) program.
Use Cases
- Modeling reef fish abundance patterns based on water temperature and salinity data.
- Analyzing coastal water quality trends over time using the multi-year time series.
- Studying relationships between photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) and fluorometry measurements.
- Assessing environmental conditions for marine habitats using transmissivity and oxygen data.
Strengths
- Data collection spans over seven years, from 2010 to 2017.
- Includes multiple physical and biological variables: temperature, salinity, depth, fluorometry, transmissivity, and PAR.
- Geographic focus on a specific region: the coasts of the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Last updated 2017-08-30 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
Provenance
- Source
- NOAA_NCEI
- Collection Method
- CTD casts taken at chevron trap deployments from NOAA ships.
- Time Range
- 2010-07-28 to 2017-08-30
- Freshness
- Last updated 2017-08-30 00:00:00
- Geography
- North Atlantic Ocean and coastal waters of the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida