Dataset: GT10-11 - N African Mineral Dust Composition
Deployment: KN204-01

North African mineral dust composition from the 2010 and 2011 U.S. GEOTRACES cruises.
Principal Investigator: 
William M. Landing (Florida State University, FSU - EOAS)
Contact: 
Rachel Shelley (Florida State University, FSU - EOAS)
BCO-DMO Data Manager: 
Shannon Rauch (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)
Project: 
Current State: 
Final no updates expected
Version: 
23 Oct 2013
Deployment Synonyms:
 GA03,  GT11,  KN204-01A,  KN204-01B,  USGT-NAT-2011,  USGNAZT,  GNAT,  316N20111106,  KN204-1
Version Date: 
2014-09-17
Description

Mineral dust composition (aerosol trace metals) (Li, Na, Mg, Al, P, Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ga, As, Se, Rb, Sr, Zr, Cd, Sn, Sb, Cs, Ba, La, Ce, Nd, Pb, Th, U) from the Northern Africa region. Collected on the 2010 and 2011 U.S. GEOTRACES North Atlantic Transect cruises.

Related Dataset: GT10-11 - Trace Metals Aerosol

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# Current version: 17 Sept 2014 Removed Ga69 columns from display
#    6 May 2014: Un-restricted the dataset
# Original version: 23 Oct 2013

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