Dataset: DOC TDN Nutrients
Deployment: NBP1302

TRACERS: DOC, TDN, Nutrients
Principal Investigator: 
Dennis Hansell (University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, UM-RSMAS)
Contact: 
Sarah Bercovici (University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, UM-RSMAS)
Dennis Hansell (University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, UM-RSMAS)
BCO-DMO Data Manager: 
Stephen R. Gegg (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)
Current State: 
Final no updates expected
Version: 
30 November 2015
Deployment Synonyms:
 TRACERS 2013
Version Date: 
2015-09-30
Description

This dataset includes water column concentrations of DOC, TDN, and nutrients collected from February 13, 2013 to March 18, 2013 along the Ross Sea shelf. Sampling focus was in the western Ross Sea along with a zonal section on 76° 30ˈS.

Related files and references:
Physical data from NBP 1302 are archived by the Marine Geoscience Data System. Data held there include shipboard continuous underway (e.g., thermosalinograph and fluorescence), bathymetry, CTD, meteorological, XBT, and navigation. The project link: http://www.marine-geo.org/tools/search/entry.php?id=NBP1302

DOC methodology
Dickson, A.G., Sabine, C.L., Christian, J.R. (Eds.) Guide to best practices for ocean CO2 measurements. PICES Special Publication 3, 191.

Phosphate methodology
K Grasshoff. 1976. Methods of seawater analysis. Verlga Chemie, Weinheim

Silicate methodology
J.D.H Strickland and T.R. Parsons. 1968. A Practical Handbook of Seawater Analyses. Ottawa: Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Bulletin.

Nitrate methodology
Braman, R.S. and S.A. Hendrix. 1989. Nanogram nitrite and nitrate determination in biological materials by vanadium(III) reduction with chemiluminescence detection. Anal. Chem. 61 (24). 2715-2718.

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