Dataset: calcification

Name: Calcification data from Trace Metal (TM) casts from R/V Thomas G. Thompson cruise TT011 in the Equatorial Pacific in 1992 during the U.S. JGOFS Equatorial Pacific (EqPac) project
Published: 2000-04-10
Keywords: oceans

Cite This Dataset

Project:

U.S. JGOFS Equatorial Pacific (EqPac)

Program:

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

Principal Investigator:

William M. Balch (Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Cynthia L. Chandler (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version:

April 10, 2000

Version Date:

2000-04-10

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Calcification data from Trace Metal (TM) casts from R/V Thomas G. Thompson cruise TT011 in the Equatorial Pacific in 1992 during the U.S. JGOFS Equatorial Pacific (EqPac) project

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Description

Calcification Data from Trace Metal (TM) casts

Methods & Sampling

   PI:              William Balch
   of:              University of Miami
   dataset:         Calcification data
   dates:           August 10, 1992 to September 13, 1992
   location:        N: 12.025  S: -11.9717  W: -140.115  E: -134.9983
   project/cruise:  EQPAC/TT011 - Fall Survey
   ship:            Thomas Thompson
 
   PI Notes

Data Files

File
calcification.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 3.84 KB) MD5:5b1e1c2a5ffba45224d3d4c62f09d7b8 Primary data file for dataset ID 2692

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

None available yet

Deployments

Deployment	Synonyms	Start Date	Platform	Investigator
TT011	EqPac Fall Survey	1992-08-05	R/V Thomas G. Thompson	Richard Barber (Chief Scientist)	data info

Instruments

Trace Metal Bottle

Supplied Description:

Trace metal (TM) clean rosette bottles were used to collect water samples.

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Trace Metal Bottle

Acronym: TM Bottle

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/30/

Generic Description:

Trace metal (TM) clean rosette bottle used for collecting trace metal clean seawater samples.

Parameters

Date and time formats are described in python strftime() syntax.

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
event	event number from event log		event
sta	station number from event log		no_bcodmo_term
cast	TM cast number from event log		cast
lat_n	nominal latitude (- denotes South)	decimal degrees	no_bcodmo_term
lon_n	nominal longitude (- denotes West)	decimal degrees	no_bcodmo_term
bot	bottle number on the Trace Metal free Rosette		no_bcodmo_term
depth_n	nominal sample depth (wire out)	meters	no_bcodmo_term
c_calc_insitu	in-situ calcification	milligrams C/m^3/day	no_bcodmo_term
c_calc_sim	simulated in-situ calcification	milligrams C/m^3/day	no_bcodmo_term

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Dataset: calcification