Instrument: MOCNESS.25

Dataset: 
CTD_MOCNESS.25
Instrument: 
MOCNESS.25
Instrument Short Name: MOC.25
Community Standard Description
(http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L22/current/NETT0097/)
Instrument Description:

The Multiple Opening/Closing Net and Environmental Sensing System or MOCNESS is a family of net systems based on the Tucker Trawl principle. The MOCNESS-1/4 carries nine 1/4-m2 nets usually of 64 micrometer mesh and is used to sample the larger micro-zooplankton.

PI supplied instrument name: MOCNESS.25
Dataset-specific description

The MOCNESS is based on the Tucker Trawl principle (Tucker, 1951). The particular MOCNESS system from which these CTD data came is one of three net systems. The MOCNESS-.25 carries nine rectangular nets (1/4-m2), usually with 64 micrometer mesh.