Dataset: Discrete - 15N2 samples

Name: N2-fixation rate measurements from R/V Kilo Moana KM0812, KM0814 in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre north of Hawaii from July to August 2008 (C-MORE project, Silica Cycling project, Phosphorus Bioavailability project)
Published: 2010-12-06
Keywords: oceans

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Cite This Dataset

Project:

Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C-MORE)

Phosphorus Bioavailability and its Effect on the Role of Trichodesmium in Elemental Cycling (Phosphorus Bioavailability)

Silica Cycling and the Role of Diatoms in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (Silica Cycling)

Principal Investigator:

Ricardo Letelier (Oregon State University, OSU-CEOAS)

Contact:

Angelicque E. White (Oregon State University, OSU-CEOAS)

Data Manager:

Jasmine Nahorniak (Oregon State University, OSU-CEOAS)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Stephen R. Gegg (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version:

December 6, 2010

Version Date:

2010-12-06

Validated:

Current State:

Preliminary and in progress

N2-fixation rate measurements from R/V Kilo Moana KM0812, KM0814 in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre north of Hawaii from July to August 2008 (C-MORE project, Silica Cycling project, Phosphorus Bioavailability project)

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Description

N2-fixation rate measurements employed the 15-N2 isotopic tracer method described by Montoya et al.

Methods & Sampling

See Platform Deployments for cruise specific documentation

Data Processing Description

See Platform Deployments for cruise specific documentation

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-0623596
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-0850827

Deployments

Deployment	Synonyms	Start Date	Platform	Investigator
KM0812	POOB2008 Pacific Open Ocean Bloom (POOB) C-MORE Silica Cycling North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (NPSG)	2008-07-01	R/V Kilo Moana	Mark A. Brzezinski (Chief Scientist)	data info
KM0814	OPEREX C-MORE Ocean Pertubation Experiment (OPEREX)	2008-07-30	R/V Kilo Moana	Dr Zbigniew Kolber (Chief Scientist)	data info

Instruments

None available yet

Parameters

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

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
date	date	YYYYMMDD	date
sta	station number	dimensionless	sta
cast	cast number	dimensionless	cast
bots	rosette bottle numbers composite sample drawn from two or more bottles	dimensionless	bots
depth	depth	meters	depth
lat	latitude negative denotes south	decimal degrees	lat
lon	longitude negative denotes west	decimal degrees	lon
N2_1_no_prefilter	N2 fixation rate (filtered onto GFF 1 with no prefilter)	nmol N L-1 d-1	no_bcodmo_term
N2_2_no_prefilter	N2 fixation rate (filtered onto GFF 2 with no prefilter)	nmol N L-1 d-1	no_bcodmo_term
N2_average_no_prefilter	average N2 fixation rate (with no prefilter)	nmol N L-1 d-1	no_bcodmo_term
N2_stderr_no_prefilter	standard error for the N2 fixation rate (with no prefilter)	nmol N L-1 d-1	no_bcodmo_term
N2_3_10um_prefilter	N2 fixation rate (filtered onto GFF 3 with 10 um prefilter)	nmol N L-1 d-1	no_bcodmo_term
N2_4_10um_prefilter	N2 fixation rate (filtered onto GFF 4 with 10 um prefilter)	nmol N L-1 d-1	no_bcodmo_term
N2_average_10um_prefilter	average N2 fixation rate (with 10 um prefilter)	nmol N L-1 d-1	no_bcodmo_term
N2_stderr_10um_prefilter	standard error for the N2 fixation rate (with 10 um prefilter)	nmol N L-1 d-1	no_bcodmo_term
N2_gt_10um_fraction	N2 fixation rate greater than 10 um fraction	nmol N L-1 d-1	no_bcodmo_term
activity_and_comments	comments	text	activity_and_comments

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Dataset: Discrete - 15N2 samples