Dataset: Discrete bottle samples collected at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) site in the Sargasso Sea from October 1988 through December 2024

ValidatedFinal with updates expectedDOI: 10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.3782.8Version 8 (2025-06-27)Dataset Type:Cruise Results

Principal Investigator: Nicholas Bates (Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences)

Co-Principal Investigator: Michael W. Lomas (Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences)

Co-Principal Investigator: Rodney J. Johnson (Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences)

Scientist: Debra Lomas (Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences)

Scientist: Rebecca May (Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences)

Scientist: Emma Stuart (Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences)

Scientist: Eloise Chambers (Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences)

Scientist: Matthew G. Hayden (Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences)

Scientist: Claire Medley (Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences)

Scientist: Lucinda Derbyshire (Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences)

Scientist: Paul J. Lethaby (Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences)

Scientist: Dominic Smith (Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences)

Scientist: Roderick Bakker (Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences)

Scientist: Emily Davey (Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences)

Scientist: Matthew Enright (Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences)

Scientist: Rebecca Garley (Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Dana Stuart Gerlach (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Program: Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB)

Program: U.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (U.S. JGOFS)

Program: Ocean Time-series Sites (Ocean Time-series)

Project: Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS)

Abstract

Data presented here are discrete bottle samples from the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) site located 80 km SE of Bermuda (31°40N, 64°10W) in the Sargasso Sea for October 1988 (cruise 10001) through December 2024 (cruise 10422). Measurements were collected from the core monthly BATS cruises and the near-biweekly (depending on ship availability) BATS Bloom cruises during February through April. The sample parameter list has been mostly consistent for the full time-series record and incl...

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Discrete bottle data collected at the Bermuda Atlantic Time Time-series Study site in the Sargasso Sea during BATS cruises #1 (October 1988) through #422 (December 2024).

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Methods
BATS (1997). (technical report). Sampling Methods for the Suite of Measurements Routinely Collected for the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study. Retrieved from: http://www.bios.edu/uploads/BATS_report_methods.pdf
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BATS (2023). Protocols for the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study Core Measurements. Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, 142 pp.
Methods
Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study Methods (online at https://bats.bios.edu/about/cruise-information/)
Methods
Knap, A.H., Michaels, A.F., Steinberg, D.K., Bahr, F., Bates, N.R., Bell, S., Countway, P., Close, A.R., Doyle, A.P., Dow, R.L., Howse, F.A., Gundersen, K., Johnson, R.J., Kelly, R., Little, R., Orcutt, K., Parsons, R., Rathburn, C., Sanderson, M. and Stone, S. (1997) BATS Methods Manual, Version 4 Woods Hole, MA, US. U.S. JGOFS Planning Office 136pp.

Bates, N., Johnson, R. J., Lomas, M. W., Smith, D., Lethaby, P. J., Bakker, R., Davey, E., Derbyshire, L., Enright, M., Garley, R., Hayden, M. G., Lomas, D., May, R., Medley, C., Stuart, E., Chambers, E. (2025) Discrete bottle samples collected at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) site in the Sargasso Sea from October 1988 through December 2024. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 8) Version Date 2025-06-27 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. doi:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.3782.8 [access date]

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