Dataset: fa_plankton

Name: Fatty Acid concentrations in plankton samples from R/V Thomas G. Thompson cruise TT011 in the Equatorial Pacific in 1992 during the U.S. JGOFS Equatorial Pacific (EqPac) project
Published: 1995-12-18
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:

Stuart Wakeham (Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, SkIO)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

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

Version:

December 18, 1995

Version Date:

1995-12-18

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Fatty Acid concentrations in plankton samples 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

Fatty Acid concentrations in plankton samples, size < 850 microns

Methods & Sampling

   PI:              Stuart Wakeham
   of:              Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
   dataset:         Fatty Acid concentrations in plankton, size less than 850 microns
   dates:           August 5, 1992 to September 18, 1992
   location:        N: 12  S: -12  W: -140  E: -140
   project/cruise:  EqPac/TT011 - Fall Survey
   ship:            Thomas Thompson
   
   Notes: Note due to the nature of this data set the standard suite of data
   manipulative tools (plot/other options) on the JGOFS Data System 
   do not apply.

Data Files

File
fa_plankton.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 973 bytes) MD5:2e494f03128a1dd6b453cdf9fa58d824 Primary data file for dataset ID 2693

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

Plankton Net

Supplied Name: Plankton Tow

Supplied Description:

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Plankton Net

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/22/

Generic Description:

A Plankton Net is a generic term for a sampling net that is used to collect plankton. It is used only when detailed instrument documentation is not available.

Parameters

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

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
fatty_acid	fatty acids concentrations fatty acid names are prefixed with fa_, and defined as number carbon atoms:number of double bonds. Prefixes i=iso, a=anteiso.	percent	no_bcodmo_term
n12 thru s12	nominal latitudes of plankton tow positions along 140W.		no_bcodmo_term
rhizo	Plankton tow made across a rhizosolenia castracanei patch near 2N 140W		no_bcodmo_term

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Dataset: fa_plankton