Instrument: Spectrometer

Instrument: 
Instrument Short Name: Spectrometer
(http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L22/current/TOOL0460/)
Instrument Description:

A spectrometer is an optical instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.

PI supplied instrument name: GlobalFIA miniSIA-1
Dataset-specific description

The miniSIA-1 is equipped with

  • A USB-4000 Ocean Optics spectrometer configured to measure absorbance between 420 and 1000 nm
  • Two lights sources – a white LED and a Tungsten/Xenon lamp (used Tungsten/Xenon lamp)
  • Chem-on-Valve manifold mounted on a Valco valve and right angle drive and equipped with a 12 cm path length Garth flow cell
  • milliGAT pump
  • 1 mL heated holding coil with PID-controlled heater (heated to 40°C)

The miniSIA-1 makes use of the Global FIA FloZF device control and data acquisition and manipulation software installed on a laptop computer.