Dataset: Drill site CTD

Name: Temperature, depth, and salinity from a drill site on Kiritimati in the Northern Line Islands between from 2014 to 2016 (RAPID Kiritimati project)
Published: 2016-09-13
Keywords: oceans

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Spatial Extent: N:1.954383 E:-157.48835 S:1.954383 W:-157.48835

Temporal Extent: 2014-09-03 - 2016-03-31

Project:

RAPID: Tracking coral reef impacts of the 2014/2015 El Nino event (RAPID Kiritimati)

Co-Principal Investigator:

Kim Cobb (Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia Tech)

Ruth D Gates (Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology)

Contact:

Austin Landry Bennett (Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia Tech)

Kim Cobb (Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia Tech)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Amber D. York (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version Date:

2016-09-13

Restricted:

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Data URL:

https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/658667/data

Temperature, depth, and salinity from a drill site on Kiritimati in the Northern Line Islands between from 2014 to 2016 (RAPID Kiritimati project)

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Description

These data include depth, temperature, and salinity from Kiritimati in the Northern Line Islands sampled with a CTD between 20 Oct 2014 and 31 Mar 2016.

Acquisition Description

Sea-Bird SBE37-SM and SBE56 instruments were deployed 30 feet off the reef at Kiritimati Island from August 2014-November 2015 at the drill site location (1.954383 -157.488350).

Note: Sensor deployments overlap in time (SBE37-SM #2978, and SBE56 #05601845)

Processing Description

No processing was done on the data, it is the raw data processed using SeatermV2.

BCO-DMO Data Manager Processing Notes:
* added a conventional header with dataset name, PI name, version date
* modified parameter names to conform with BCO-DMO naming conventions
* added lat, lon of sampling locaiton
* sensor model and serial included for deployment disambiguation

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1446274

Deployments

Deployment	Synonyms	Start Date	Platform	Investigator
RAPID_Kiritimati_2014-2016		2014-09-03	Kiritimati	Kim Cobb (Principal Investigator) Kim Cobb (Contact)	data info

Instruments

CTD Sea-Bird MicroCAT 37

Supplied Name: Sea-Bird SBE37-SM

Supplied Description:

Instrument Type

Generic Name: CTD Sea-Bird MicroCAT 37

Acronym: CTD MicroCAT 37

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/350/

Generic Description:

The Sea-Bird MicroCAT CTD unit is a high-accuracy conductivity and temperature recorder based on the Sea-Bird SBE 37 MicroCAT series of products. It can be configured with optional pressure sensor, internal batteries, memory, built-in Inductive Modem, integral Pump, and/or SBE-43 Integrated Dissolved Oxygen sensor. Constructed of titanium and other non-corroding materials for long life with minimal maintenance, the MicroCAT is designed for long duration on moorings.

In a typical mooring, a modem module housed in the buoy communicates with underwater instruments and is interfaced to a computer or data logger via serial port. The computer or data logger is programmed to poll each instrument on the mooring for its data, and send the data to a telemetry transmitter (satellite link, cell phone, RF modem, etc.). The MicroCAT saves data in memory for upload after recovery, providing a data backup if real-time telemetry is interrupted.

Temperature Logger

Supplied Name: Sea-Bird SBE56

Supplied Description:

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Temperature Logger

Generic Description:

Records temperature data over a period of time.

Parameters

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
inst_model	CTD model	unitless	inst_model
inst_serial	CTD serial numner	unitless	inst_serial_numb
temp	Temperature	degrees Celsius	temp
depth	Depth of sample	meters	depth
sal	Salinity	parts per thousand (ppt)	sal
time	Time (UTC) in format HH:MM	unitless	time
ISO_DateTime_UTC	ISO timestamp based on the ISO 8601:2004(E) standard in format YYYY-mm-ddTHH:MM:SS[.xx]Z (UTC)	unitless	ISO_DateTime_UTC
lat	Latitude	decimal degrees	lat
lon	Longitude	decimal degrees	lon

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Dataset: Drill site CTD