Dataset: Results from Optimum Multiparameter Water Mass Analysis (OMPA) obtained using temperature, salinity, nutrient, and oxygen data from R/V Thomas G. Thompson cruise TN303 in the Eastern Tropical Pacific from October to December 2013

ValidatedFinal no updates expectedDOI: 10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.713003.1Version 1 (2017-08-17)Dataset Type:Cruise Results

Principal Investigator: Karen L. Casciotti (Stanford University)

Co-Principal Investigator: Mark A. Brzezinski (University of California-Santa Barbara)

Co-Principal Investigator: Gregory A. Cutter (Old Dominion University)

Co-Principal Investigator: Christopher R. German (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Co-Principal Investigator: William J. Jenkins (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Co-Principal Investigator: James W. Moffett (University of Southern California)

Co-Principal Investigator: James H. Swift (University of California-San Diego Scripps)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Shannon Rauch (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Program: U.S. GEOTRACES (U.S. GEOTRACES)

Project: U.S. GEOTRACES East Pacific Zonal Transect (GP16) (U.S. GEOTRACES EPZT)

Project: GEOTRACES Peru-Tahiti Nitrogen Isotope Measurements (EPZT Nitrogen Isotopes)

Project: Measurement of Helium Isotopes, Tritium, Noble Gases, and Radiocarbon (EPZT Noble Gases He Tritium)

Abstract

Results from Optimum Multiparameter Water Mass Analysis (OMPA) obtained using temperature, salinity, nutrient, and oxygen data from R/V Thomas G. Thompson cruise TN303 in the Eastern Tropical Pacific from October to December 2013.

Cite Dataset

Water mass percentage data from Optimum Multiparameter Water Mass Analysis (OMPA) for GP16 obtained using temperature, salinity, nutrient, and oxygen data.

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General
Mackas, D. L., Denman, K. L., & Bennett, A. F. (1987). Least squares multiple tracer analysis of water mass composition. Journal of Geophysical Research, 92(C3), 2907. doi:10.1029/jc092ic03p02907
General
Peters, B. D., Jenkins, W. J., Swift, J. H., German, C. R., Moffett, J. W., Cutter, G. A., … Casciotti, K. L. (2018). Water mass analysis of the 2013 US GEOTRACES eastern Pacific zonal transect (GP16). Marine Chemistry, 201, 6–19. doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2017.09.007
Methods
Jenkins, W. J., Smethie, W. M., Boyle, E. A., & Cutter, G. A. (2015). Water mass analysis for the U.S. GEOTRACES (GA03) North Atlantic sections. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 116, 6–20. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2014.11.018
Methods
Tomczak, M. (1981). A multi-parameter extension of temperature/salinity diagram techniques for the analysis of non-isopycnal mixing. Progress in Oceanography, 10(3), 147–171. doi:10.1016/0079-6611(81)90010-0
Methods
Tomczak, M., & Large, D. G. B. (1989). Optimum multiparameter analysis of mixing in the thermocline of the eastern Indian Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research, 94(C11), 16141. doi:10.1029/jc094ic11p16141

Casciotti, K., Brzezinski, M., Cutter, G., German, C., Jenkins, W., Moffett, J., Swift, J. (2020) Results from Optimum Multiparameter Water Mass Analysis (OMPA) obtained using temperature, salinity, nutrient, and oxygen data from R/V Thomas G. Thompson cruise TN303 in the Eastern Tropical Pacific from October to December 2013. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2017-08-17 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. doi:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.713003.1 [access date]

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