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&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Results are published in Marconi et al (2015).&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;

&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;DMO Note:&amp;lt;/strong&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;Fully unrestricted data, including the dNO3 columns&amp;amp;nbsp;served on 2018-12-26. Previous version of revised data was served on 12 March 2014. &amp;amp;nbsp;Original data were served in March&amp;amp;nbsp;2013.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;

&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Please note that data may not be final, pending intercalibration&amp;amp;nbsp;results and further analysis. If you are interested in following&amp;amp;nbsp;changes to US GEOTRACES data, there is an RSS feed available&amp;amp;nbsp;from the &amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http://www.bco-dmo.org/project/2066&amp;quot; target=&amp;quot;_blank&amp;quot;&amp;gt;GEOTRACES-NAT&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; project page.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt; Methods and Sampling: &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;Sampling and Analytical Methodology: &amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;/strong&amp;gt;Seawater samples were processed in accordance with the published Denitrifier Method (citation provided below under Related Files and References). &amp;amp;nbsp;All isotopes analyses were performed on a MAT253 Thermo IRMS equipped with a custom-sample preparation system. &amp;amp;nbsp;With this system, we were able to achieve an overall standard deviation of 0.04 per mil for d15N-NO3 analyses and 0.09 per mil for d18O-NO3 analyses.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;</gco:CharacterString>
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                            <gco:CharacterString>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Much of this text appeared in an article published in OCB News, October 2008, by the OCB Project Office.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The first U.S. GEOTRACES Atlantic Section will be specifically centered around a sampling cruise to be carried out in the North Atlantic in 2010. Ed Boyle (MIT) and Bill Jenkins (WHOI) organized a three-day planning workshop that was held September 22-24, 2008 at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The main goal of the workshop, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. GEOTRACES Scientific Steering Committee, was to design the implementation plan for the first U.S. GEOTRACES Atlantic Section. The primary cruise design motivation was to improve knowledge of the sources, sinks and internal cycling of Trace Elements and their Isotopes (TEIs) by studying their distributions along a section in the North Atlantic (Figure 1). The North Atlantic has the full suite of processes that affect TEIs, including strong meridional advection, boundary scavenging and source effects, aeolian deposition, and the salty Mediterranean Outflow. The North Atlantic is particularly important as it lies at the &quot;origin&quot; of the global Meridional Overturning Circulation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It is well understood that many trace metals play important roles in biogeochemical processes and the carbon cycle, yet very little is known about their large-scale distributions and the regional scale processes that affect them. Recent advances in sampling and analytical techniques, along with advances in our understanding of their roles in enzymatic and catalytic processes in the open ocean provide a natural opportunity to make substantial advances in our understanding of these important elements. Moreover, we are motivated by the prospect of global change and the need to understand the present and future workings of the ocean's biogeochemistry. The GEOTRACES strategy is to measure a broad suite of TEIs to constrain the critical biogeochemical processes that influence their distributions. In addition to these &quot;exotic&quot; substances, more traditional properties, including macronutrients (at micromolar and nanomolar levels), CTD, bio-optical parameters, and carbon system characteristics will be measured. The cruise starts at Line W, a repeat hydrographic section southeast of Cape Cod, extends to Bermuda and subsequently through the North Atlantic oligotrophic subtropical gyre, then transects into the African coast in the northern limb of the coastal upwelling region. From there, the cruise goes northward into the Mediterranean outflow. The station locations shown on the map are for the &quot;fulldepth TEI&quot; stations, and constitute approximately half of the stations to be ultimately occupied.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Figure 1. The proposed 2010 Atlantic GEOTRACES cruise track plotted on dissolved oxygen at 400 m depth. Data from the World Ocean Atlas (Levitus et al., 2005) were plotted using Ocean Data View (courtesy Reiner Schlitzer). [click on the image to view a larger version]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://bcodata.whoi.edu/US_GEOTRACES/AtlanticSection/GEOTRACES_Atl_stas.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;https://datadocs.bco-dmo.org/d2/US_GEOTRACES/AtlanticSection/GEOTRACES_Atl_stas.jpg&quot; style=&quot;width:350px&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hydrography, CTD and nutrient measurements will be supported by the Ocean Data Facility (J. Swift) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and funded through NSF Facilities. They will be providing an additional CTD rosette system along with nephelometer and LADCP. A trace metal clean Go-Flo Rosette and winch will be provided by the group at Old Dominion University (G. Cutter) along with a towed underway pumping system.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The North Atlantic Transect cruise began in 2010 with KN199 leg 4 (station sampling) and leg 5 (underway sampling only) (Figure 2).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bcodata.whoi.edu//US_GEOTRACES/AtlanticSection/Cruise_Report_for_Knorr_199_Final_v3.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;KN199-04 Cruise Report (PDF)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Figure 2. The red line shows the cruise track for the first leg of the US Geotraces North Atlantic Transect on the R/V Knorr in October 2010.  The rest of the stations (beginning with 13) will be completed in October-December 2011 on the R/V Knorr (courtesy of Bill Jenkins, Chief Scientist, GNAT first leg). [click on the image to view a larger version]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://bcodata.whoi.edu/US_GEOTRACES/AtlanticSection/GNAT_stationPlan.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Atlantic Transect Station location map&quot; src=&quot;https://datadocs.bco-dmo.org/d2/US_GEOTRACES/AtlanticSection/GNAT_stationPlan_sm.jpg&quot; style=&quot;width:350px&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The section completion effort resumed again in November 2011 with KN204-01A,B (Figure 3).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bcodata.whoi.edu//US_GEOTRACES/AtlanticSection/Submitted_Preliminary_Cruise_Report_for_Knorr_204-01.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;KN204-01A,B Cruise Report (PDF)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Figure 3. Station locations occupied on the US Geotraces North Atlantic Transect on the R/V Knorr in November 2011.  [click on the image to view a larger version]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://bcodata.whoi.edu/US_GEOTRACES/AtlanticSection/KN204-01_Stations.png&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Atlantic Transect/Part 2 Station location map&quot; src=&quot;https://datadocs.bco-dmo.org/d2/US_GEOTRACES/AtlanticSection/KN204-01_Stations.png&quot; style=&quot;width:350px&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Data from the North Atlantic Transect cruises are available under the Datasets heading below, and consensus values for the SAFe and North Atlantic GEOTRACES Reference Seawater Samples are available from the GEOTRACES Program Office: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.geotraces.org/science/intercalibration/322-standards-and-reference-materials?acm=455_215&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Standards and Reference Materials&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ADCP data&lt;/strong&gt; are available from the Currents ADCP group at the University of Hawaii at the links below:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://currents.soest.hawaii.edu/uhdas_adcp/year2010.html#kn199_4&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;KN199-04&lt;/a&gt;   (leg 1 of 2010 cruise; Lisbon to Cape Verde)&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;BCO-DMO Processing Notes:&amp;lt;/strong&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;
- Modified parameter names to conform with BCO-DMO naming conventions.&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;
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&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Additional GEOTRACES Processing:&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;
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&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Bottle parameters in the master file were taken from the GT-C_Bottle_GT10, GT-C_Bottle_GT11, ODF_Bottle_GT10, and ODF_Bottle_GT11 datasets. Non-bottle parameters, including those from GeoFish tows, Aerosol sampling, and McLane Pumps, were taken from the Event_Log_GT10 and Event_Log_GT11 datasets. McLane pump cast numbers missing in event logs were taken from the Particulate Th-234 dataset submitted by Ken Buesseler.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;

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