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For long-term deployments, the serial number of the float (F033 or F034).\u003C\/p\u003E\n","no_data_value":"nd","conversion_necessary":"no","conversion_utility":null,"parameter_nid":"807","parameter_description":"\u003Cp\u003Edeployment number, equivalent to station or cast\u003C\/p\u003E\n","parameter_max_value":null,"parameter_min_value":null,"parameter_nd_value":null,"parameter_official_name":"deployno","parameter_external_identifier":null,"parameter_short_description":"deployment number","parameter_short_name":"deployno","parameter_units":null,"parameter_units_external_identifier":null,"order":null},{"dataset_parameter_nid":"729326","supplied_name":"date","supplied_units":"unitless","value_format":null,"description":"\u003Cp\u003EThe UTC date at the completion of the ascent profile; yyyy\/mm\/dd\u003C\/p\u003E\n","no_data_value":"nd","conversion_necessary":"no","conversion_utility":"","parameter_nid":"1070","parameter_description":"\u003Cp\u003Edate; generally reported in GMT as YYYYMMDD (year; month; day); also as MMDD (month; day); EqPac dates are local Hawaii time. ISO_Date format is YYYY-MM-DD (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iso.org\/iso\/home\/standards\/iso8601.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.iso.org\/iso\/home\/standards\/iso8601.htm\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003C\/p\u003E\n","parameter_max_value":null,"parameter_min_value":null,"parameter_nd_value":null,"parameter_official_name":"date","parameter_external_identifier":"http:\/\/vocab.nerc.ac.uk\/collection\/P01\/current\/ADATAA01\/","parameter_short_description":"date","parameter_short_name":"date","parameter_units":null,"parameter_units_external_identifier":null,"order":null},{"dataset_parameter_nid":"729327","supplied_name":"time","supplied_units":"unitless","value_format":null,"description":"\u003Cp\u003EThe UTC time at the completion of the ascent profile; HH:MM\u003C\/p\u003E\n","no_data_value":"nd","conversion_necessary":"no","conversion_utility":"","parameter_nid":"1075","parameter_description":"\u003Cp\u003ETime GMT defined as HHMM; time of day; generally reported in GMT as HHMM (hours and minutes) but may also be HH.H (decimal hours) or HHMMSS (hours; minutes and seconds); in EqPac time is reported as Hawaii local time\u003C\/p\u003E\n","parameter_max_value":null,"parameter_min_value":null,"parameter_nd_value":"nd","parameter_official_name":"time","parameter_external_identifier":"http:\/\/vocab.nerc.ac.uk\/collection\/P01\/current\/AHMSAA01\/","parameter_short_description":"time of day","parameter_short_name":"time","parameter_units":"HHMM or HHMMSS","parameter_units_external_identifier":null,"order":null},{"dataset_parameter_nid":"729328","supplied_name":"pres","supplied_units":"dbar","value_format":null,"description":"\u003Cp\u003EPressure acquired with Sea-Bird Scientific SBE 41CP CTD. This is reported as the instrument output with the factory calibration applied.\u003C\/p\u003E\n","no_data_value":"nd","conversion_necessary":"no","conversion_utility":"","parameter_nid":"732","parameter_description":"\u003Cp\u003Ewater pressure at measurement; depth reported as pressure; positive number increasing with water depth\u003C\/p\u003E\n","parameter_max_value":null,"parameter_min_value":null,"parameter_nd_value":"nd","parameter_official_name":"pressure","parameter_external_identifier":"http:\/\/vocab.nerc.ac.uk\/collection\/P01\/current\/PRESPR01\/","parameter_short_description":"water pressure","parameter_short_name":"press","parameter_units":"various","parameter_units_external_identifier":null,"order":null},{"dataset_parameter_nid":"729329","supplied_name":"temp","supplied_units":"Celsius","value_format":null,"description":"\u003Cp\u003ETemperature acquired with Sea-Bird Scientific SBE 41CP CTD. This is reported as the instrument output with the factory calibration applied.\u003C\/p\u003E\n","no_data_value":"nd","conversion_necessary":"no","conversion_utility":"","parameter_nid":"553763","parameter_description":"\u003Cp\u003ETemperature in degrees C of a sample or other item.\u00a0 A generic temperature measurement.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENote: This is NOT water temp or sea surface temp\u003C\/p\u003E\n","parameter_max_value":null,"parameter_min_value":null,"parameter_nd_value":"nd","parameter_official_name":"temperature","parameter_external_identifier":null,"parameter_short_description":"temperature of sample or a generic measurement (not in-situ water temp)","parameter_short_name":"temperature","parameter_units":"degrees Celsius","parameter_units_external_identifier":null,"order":null},{"dataset_parameter_nid":"729330","supplied_name":"sal","supplied_units":"PSU","value_format":null,"description":"\u003Cp\u003ESalinity acquired with Sea-Bird Scientific SBE 41CP CTD. This is reported as the instrument output with the factory calibration applied.\u003C\/p\u003E\n","no_data_value":"nd","conversion_necessary":"no","conversion_utility":"","parameter_nid":"955","parameter_description":"\u003Cp\u003ESalinity: The amount (mass or quantity of matter) of salt per amount (volume or mass) of a body of water.\u003C\/p\u003E\n","parameter_max_value":null,"parameter_min_value":null,"parameter_nd_value":null,"parameter_official_name":"sal","parameter_external_identifier":"http:\/\/vocab.nerc.ac.uk\/collection\/P01\/current\/PSALST01\/","parameter_short_description":"salinity","parameter_short_name":"sal","parameter_units":"dimensionless","parameter_units_external_identifier":null,"order":null},{"dataset_parameter_nid":"729331","supplied_name":"optode_therm_v","supplied_units":"volts","value_format":null,"description":"\u003Cp\u003EOxygen sensor thermistor raw voltage; Acquired with Sea-Bird Scientific SBE 63 Optical Dissolved Oxygen Sensor. This is the raw sensor output.\u003C\/p\u003E\n","no_data_value":"nd","conversion_necessary":"no","conversion_utility":"","parameter_nid":"1760","parameter_description":"\u003Cp\u003EOxygen voltage\u003C\/p\u003E\n","parameter_max_value":null,"parameter_min_value":null,"parameter_nd_value":"nd","parameter_official_name":"O2_v","parameter_external_identifier":null,"parameter_short_description":"Oxygen in volts","parameter_short_name":"O2_v","parameter_units":"volts","parameter_units_external_identifier":null,"order":null},{"dataset_parameter_nid":"729332","supplied_name":"optode_temp","supplied_units":"Celsius","value_format":null,"description":"\u003Cp\u003ETemperature at dissolved oxygen sensor; Acquired with Sea-Bird Scientific SBE 63 Optical Dissolved Oxygen Sensor. Temperature at the dissolved oxygen sensor was calculated from the raw SBE 63 thermistor voltage by applying the factory calibration: L = ln (100000 * thermistor voltage \/ (3.3 - thermistor voltage)) Temperature [ deg C] = 1 \/ (TA0 + TA1*L + TA2*L2 + TA3*L3) - 273.15\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESee\u00a0\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bco-dmo.org\/dataset\/728371\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.bco-dmo.org\/dataset\/728371\u003C\/a\u003E for calibration coefficients.\u003C\/p\u003E\n","no_data_value":"nd","conversion_necessary":"no","conversion_utility":null,"parameter_nid":"553763","parameter_description":"\u003Cp\u003ETemperature in degrees C of a sample or other item.\u00a0 A generic temperature measurement.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENote: This is NOT water temp or sea surface temp\u003C\/p\u003E\n","parameter_max_value":null,"parameter_min_value":null,"parameter_nd_value":"nd","parameter_official_name":"temperature","parameter_external_identifier":null,"parameter_short_description":"temperature of sample or a generic measurement (not in-situ water temp)","parameter_short_name":"temperature","parameter_units":"degrees Celsius","parameter_units_external_identifier":null,"order":null},{"dataset_parameter_nid":"729333","supplied_name":"oxy_phase","supplied_units":"usec","value_format":null,"description":"\u003Cp\u003EOxygen sensor raw phase; Acquired with Sea-Bird Scientific SBE 63 Optical Dissolved Oxygen Sensor. This is the raw sensor output.\u003C\/p\u003E\n","no_data_value":"nd","conversion_necessary":"no","conversion_utility":"","parameter_nid":"1073","parameter_description":"\u003Cp\u003EAn association with a community-wide standard parameter has not yet been made.\u003C\/p\u003E\n","parameter_max_value":null,"parameter_min_value":null,"parameter_nd_value":null,"parameter_official_name":"no_bcodmo_term","parameter_external_identifier":null,"parameter_short_description":"No BCO-DMO term","parameter_short_name":"no_bcodmo_term","parameter_units":null,"parameter_units_external_identifier":null,"order":null},{"dataset_parameter_nid":"729334","supplied_name":"oxygen","supplied_units":"umol\/kg","value_format":null,"description":"\u003Cp\u003EDissolved oxygen; Acquired with Sea-Bird Scientific SBE 63 Optical Dissolved Oxygen Sensor. Dissolved oxygen concentration [umol\/kg] was calculated and corrected for salinity and pressure effects according to the 2016 Argo recommendations for processing of dissolved oxygen data (Thierry et al. 2016). As per these recommendations, an initial pressure correction was made to the raw measured oxygen phase delay Phi\u00a0[usec] according to Bittig et al. 2015:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Phi adj\u00a0= Phi raw\u00a0+ Pcoef1\u00a0* P \/ 1000\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Ewhere Pcoef1\u00a0= 0.115 usec and P [dbar] is the collocated SBE 41CP CTD pressure measurement. The adjusted oxygen phase delay [usec] was then converted to voltage by applying the factory conversion:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 V = Phiadj\u00a0\/ 39.457071\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUncorrected dissolved oxygen concentration [mL\/L] was calculated by applying the factory calibration:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oxygen_uncorr\u00a0[mL\/L] = {(A0 + A1*T + A2*V2) \/ (B0 + B1*V) - 1.0} \/ (C0 + C1*T + C2*T2)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Ewhere T is SBE 63 temperature [deg C] and V is adjusted SBE 63 phase delay [V]. The oxygen calibration coefficients (A0, A1, A2, B0, B1, C0, C1, C2) are provided in Table 1. Dissolved oxygen concentration [mL\/L] was then corrected for salinity and pressure effects according to the 2016 Argo recommendations.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oxygen_corr\u00a0[mL\/L] = Oxygenun corr\u00a0[mL\/L] * Scorr\u00a0* Pcorr\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Ewhere\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Scorr\u00a0= A(T,S,Spreset)\u00a0* exp(S*(SolB0\u00a0+ SolB1*Ts\u00a0+ SolB2*Ts2\u00a0+ SolB3*Ts3) + SolC0*S2)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A(T,S,Spreset)\u00a0= (1013.25 -\u00a0pH2O(T,Spreset)) \/ (1013.25 -\u00a0pH2O(T,S))\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0pH2O = 1013.25 * exp(D0\u00a0+ D1*(100 \/ (T + 273.15)) + D2*ln((T + 273.15) \/ 100) + D3*S)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Spreset\u00a0= 0\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 TS\u00a0=\u00a0ln\u00a0[(298.15 - T) \/ (273.15 + T)]\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ET and S are the collocated temperature and salinity measurements from the SBE 41CP CTD, respectively. Salinity correction coefficients are from Benson and Krause 1984 (SolB0\u00a0= -6.24523e-3, SolB1\u00a0= -7.37614e-3, SolB2\u00a0= -1.03410e-3, SolB3\u00a0= -8.17083e-3, SolC0\u00a0= -4.88682e-7) and\u00a0pH2O coefficients are from Weiss and Price 1980 (D0\u00a0= 24.4543, D1\u00a0= -67.4509, D2\u00a0= -4.8489, D3\u00a0= -5.44e-4). The pressure correction factor Pcorr\u00a0is calculated as outlined in Bittig et al. 2015 as\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pcorr\u00a0= 1 + (Pcoef2\u00a0* T + Pcoef3) * P \/ 1000\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Ewith Pcoef2\u00a0= 0.00022 and Pcoef3\u00a0= 0.0419. Dissolved oxygen concentration [mL\/L] was converted to dissolved oxygen concentration [umol\/kg]:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oxygen [umol\/kg] = Oxygen [mL\/L] * (44.6596 umol\/mL) \/ (\u03c1Theta\/1000)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Ewhere \u03c1\u03b8\u00a0is the potential density of seawater [kg\/m3] at zero pressure and the potential temperature calculated from collocated SBE 41CP CTD salinity, temperature, and pressure measurements using the pden function in the SEAWATER Matlab library (Morgan and Pender 1993). The value of 44.6596 umol\/mL is derived from the molar volume of oxygen gas at standard temperature and pressure, 22.3916 L\/mole (e.g., Garc\u00eda and Gordon 1992).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESee \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bco-dmo.org\/dataset\/728371\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.bco-dmo.org\/dataset\/728371\u003C\/a\u003E for calibration coefficients.\u003C\/p\u003E\n","no_data_value":"nd","conversion_necessary":"no","conversion_utility":null,"parameter_nid":"910","parameter_description":"\u003Cp\u003Edissolved oxygen concentration\u003C\/p\u003E\n","parameter_max_value":null,"parameter_min_value":null,"parameter_nd_value":"nd","parameter_official_name":"dissolved Oxygen","parameter_external_identifier":null,"parameter_short_description":"dissolved Oxygen","parameter_short_name":"O2","parameter_units":"various","parameter_units_external_identifier":null,"order":null},{"dataset_parameter_nid":"729335","supplied_name":"oxygen_cal","supplied_units":"umol\/kg","value_format":null,"description":"\u003Cp\u003ECalibrated dissolved oxygen; The dissolved oxygen concentrations calculated above were corrected to dissolved oxygen concentrations measured by Winkler titration of bottle samples collected during concurrent Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study cruises (available at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bco-dmo.org\/project\/2124\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.bco-dmo.org\/project\/2124\u003C\/a\u003E or \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bats.bios.edu\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/bats.bios.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELinear regression yields the relationship: \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Eoxygen_cal [umol\/kg] = oxygen [umol\/kg] * 1.0331 \u2013 6.9976; R2 = 0.97. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESee\u00a0\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bco-dmo.org\/dataset\/728371\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.bco-dmo.org\/dataset\/728371\u003C\/a\u003E for bottle calibration data.\u003C\/p\u003E\n","no_data_value":"nd","conversion_necessary":"no","conversion_utility":null,"parameter_nid":"910","parameter_description":"\u003Cp\u003Edissolved oxygen concentration\u003C\/p\u003E\n","parameter_max_value":null,"parameter_min_value":null,"parameter_nd_value":"nd","parameter_official_name":"dissolved Oxygen","parameter_external_identifier":null,"parameter_short_description":"dissolved Oxygen","parameter_short_name":"O2","parameter_units":"various","parameter_units_external_identifier":null,"order":null},{"dataset_parameter_nid":"729336","supplied_name":"chl","supplied_units":"ug\/L","value_format":null,"description":"\u003Cp\u003EChlorophyll-a; Acquired with WET Labs MCOMS Chlorophyll Fluorometer (excitation 470 nm\/emission 695 nm). A dark offset was subtracted from the raw sensor counts and the result was multiplied by a factory-determined scale factor to obtain fluorometric chlorophyll-a concentration [ug\/L]. The dark offset was computed separately for each sensor as the mean of the deep-water minima measured during all profiles between July and September 2013 at BATS (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bco-dmo.org\/dataset\/728371\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.bco-dmo.org\/dataset\/728371\u003C\/a\u003E). Chl [ug\/L] = Scale Factor * (Output - Dark Counts)\u003C\/p\u003E\n","no_data_value":"nd","conversion_necessary":"no","conversion_utility":null,"parameter_nid":"766","parameter_description":"\u003Cp\u003ETotal chlorophyll a pigment. See dataset for units of measurement; often reported in:\u00a0milligrams per cubic meter (mg\/m3); micrograms\/liter (ug\/L); nanograms\/liter\u00a0(ng\/L).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECAUTION Within JGOFS MERGED water column products: this parameter is derived from HPLC methodology and the units are nanograms\/liter; however; this parameter name is also used for a variety of water and nonwater column sampling; derived via the fluorometric method; units will also vary.\u003C\/p\u003E\n","parameter_max_value":null,"parameter_min_value":null,"parameter_nd_value":null,"parameter_official_name":"chlorophyll a","parameter_external_identifier":"http:\/\/vocab.nerc.ac.uk\/collection\/P01\/current\/CPHLHPP1\/","parameter_short_description":"chlorophyll a","parameter_short_name":"chl_a","parameter_units":"various","parameter_units_external_identifier":null,"order":null},{"dataset_parameter_nid":"729337","supplied_name":"chl_corr","supplied_units":"ug\/L","value_format":null,"description":"\u003Cp\u003ECorrected chlorophyll-a; The fluorometric chlorophyll-a values derived above were further corrected by removing the deep-water dependence of chlorophyll fluorescence on fluorescent colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM; see below) and a small residual deep-water sensor offset. The method of Xing et al. (2017) was applied. Briefly chlorophyll fluorescence in deep water was assumed to originate entirely from a combination of the above factors the dependence of the measured chlorophyll fluorescence on CDOM was determined through linear regression and the regression parameters were used to correct the entire chlorophyll profile. Profiles shallower than 200 m were corrected using the regression parameters of the subsequent float profile.\u003C\/p\u003E\n","no_data_value":"nd","conversion_necessary":"no","conversion_utility":"","parameter_nid":"766","parameter_description":"\u003Cp\u003ETotal chlorophyll a pigment. See dataset for units of measurement; often reported in:\u00a0milligrams per cubic meter (mg\/m3); micrograms\/liter (ug\/L); nanograms\/liter\u00a0(ng\/L).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECAUTION Within JGOFS MERGED water column products: this parameter is derived from HPLC methodology and the units are nanograms\/liter; however; this parameter name is also used for a variety of water and nonwater column sampling; derived via the fluorometric method; units will also vary.\u003C\/p\u003E\n","parameter_max_value":null,"parameter_min_value":null,"parameter_nd_value":null,"parameter_official_name":"chlorophyll a","parameter_external_identifier":"http:\/\/vocab.nerc.ac.uk\/collection\/P01\/current\/CPHLHPP1\/","parameter_short_description":"chlorophyll a","parameter_short_name":"chl_a","parameter_units":"various","parameter_units_external_identifier":null,"order":null},{"dataset_parameter_nid":"729338","supplied_name":"chl_cal","supplied_units":"ug\/L","value_format":null,"description":"\u003Cp\u003ECalibrated chlorophyll-a; Corrected fluorometric chlorophyll-a concentrations (chl_corr derived above) were calibrated to chlorophyll-a concentrations measured by HPLC of bottle samples collected during concurrent Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study cruises (available at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bco-dmo.org\/project\/2124\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.bco-dmo.org\/project\/2124\u003C\/a\u003E or \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bats.bios.edu\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/bats.bios.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELinear regression yields the relationship:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Echl_cal [\u00b5=ug\/L] = chl [ug\/L] * 0.4756 + 0.0064; R2 = 0.92.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESee\u00a0\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bco-dmo.org\/dataset\/728371\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.bco-dmo.org\/dataset\/728371\u003C\/a\u003E\u00a0for bottle calibration data.\u003C\/p\u003E\n","no_data_value":"nd","conversion_necessary":"no","conversion_utility":null,"parameter_nid":"766","parameter_description":"\u003Cp\u003ETotal chlorophyll a pigment. See dataset for units of measurement; often reported in:\u00a0milligrams per cubic meter (mg\/m3); micrograms\/liter (ug\/L); nanograms\/liter\u00a0(ng\/L).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECAUTION Within JGOFS MERGED water column products: this parameter is derived from HPLC methodology and the units are nanograms\/liter; however; this parameter name is also used for a variety of water and nonwater column sampling; derived via the fluorometric method; units will also vary.\u003C\/p\u003E\n","parameter_max_value":null,"parameter_min_value":null,"parameter_nd_value":null,"parameter_official_name":"chlorophyll a","parameter_external_identifier":"http:\/\/vocab.nerc.ac.uk\/collection\/P01\/current\/CPHLHPP1\/","parameter_short_description":"chlorophyll a","parameter_short_name":"chl_a","parameter_units":"various","parameter_units_external_identifier":null,"order":null},{"dataset_parameter_nid":"729339","supplied_name":"bbp700","supplied_units":"m -1","value_format":null,"description":"\u003Cp\u003EParticulate backscattering coefficient bbp (700nm); Acquired with WET Labs MCOMS Scattering Meter with 700-nm wavelength and in-water centroid angle of 150 deg. See Table 3 in paper.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe particulate volume scattering coefficient \u03b2p was calculated as\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u03b2p(150 deg,700 nm) [m-1 sr-1] = Scale Factor * (Output \u2013 Dark Counts)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Eusing a factory-determined scale factor and a dark offset, computed separately for each sensor as the mean of the deep-water minima measured during all profiles between July and September 2013 at BATS (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bco-dmo.org\/dataset\/728371\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.bco-dmo.org\/dataset\/728371\u003C\/a\u003E). Particulate backscattering coefficient, bbp(\u03bb) [m-1], is estimated as\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 bbp = 2\u03c0\u03c7\u03b2p(150 deg)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u03c7 = 1.13 for 150 deg (from Boss and Pegau 2001).\u003C\/p\u003E\n","no_data_value":"nd","conversion_necessary":"no","conversion_utility":null,"parameter_nid":"1776","parameter_description":"\u003Cp\u003EParticulate backscattering coefficient (bbp) at 700 nm\u003C\/p\u003E\n","parameter_max_value":null,"parameter_min_value":null,"parameter_nd_value":"nd","parameter_official_name":"bbp700","parameter_external_identifier":null,"parameter_short_description":"bbp700","parameter_short_name":"bbp700","parameter_units":"reciprocal meter","parameter_units_external_identifier":null,"order":null},{"dataset_parameter_nid":"729340","supplied_name":"bbp700_corr","supplied_units":"m -1","value_format":null,"description":"\u003Cp\u003ECorrected particulate backscattering coefficient bbp (700nm); Depth profiles of particulate backscattering coefficient bbp(700 nm) were despiked using a running median filter (Briggs et al. 2011). 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The minimum bbp(700 nm) measured during the long-term deployments was determined for each float (-2.0488e-04 m-1 for F033; -1.1139e-04 m-1 for F034) and subtracted from the bbp(700 nm) values derived above.\u003C\/p\u003E\n","no_data_value":"nd","conversion_necessary":"no","conversion_utility":"","parameter_nid":"1776","parameter_description":"\u003Cp\u003EParticulate backscattering coefficient (bbp) at 700 nm\u003C\/p\u003E\n","parameter_max_value":null,"parameter_min_value":null,"parameter_nd_value":"nd","parameter_official_name":"bbp700","parameter_external_identifier":null,"parameter_short_description":"bbp700","parameter_short_name":"bbp700","parameter_units":"reciprocal meter","parameter_units_external_identifier":null,"order":null},{"dataset_parameter_nid":"729341","supplied_name":"POC_bbp","supplied_units":"mg\/meters cubed","value_format":null,"description":"\u003Cp\u003EParticulate organic carbon derived from bbp (700 nm); The relationship between corrected bbp(700 nm) measured by the float backscatter sensor (bbp700_corr derived above) and POC concentrations measured in bottle samples collected during concurrent Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study cruises (available at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bco-dmo.org\/project\/2124\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.bco-dmo.org\/project\/2124\u003C\/a\u003E or \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bats.bios.edu\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/bats.bios.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) was utilized to predict POC concentration from corrected bbp(700 nm) for all float samples.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELinear regression yields the relationship:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPOC [mg\/m3] = bbp(700 nm) [m-1] * 32020.0874 + 0.2973; R2 = 0.86.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESee\u00a0\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bco-dmo.org\/dataset\/728371\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.bco-dmo.org\/dataset\/728371\u003C\/a\u003E\u00a0for bottle calibration data.\u003C\/p\u003E\n","no_data_value":"nd","conversion_necessary":"no","conversion_utility":null,"parameter_nid":"934","parameter_description":"\u003Cp\u003EParticulate Organic Carbon. Units may be micrograms\/Liter, milligrams\/Liter or milligrams\/meter^3\u003C\/p\u003E\n","parameter_max_value":null,"parameter_min_value":null,"parameter_nd_value":null,"parameter_official_name":"POC","parameter_external_identifier":"http:\/\/vocab.nerc.ac.uk\/collection\/P01\/current\/CORGCAP1\/","parameter_short_description":"particulate organic Carbon (POC)","parameter_short_name":"POC","parameter_units":"various","parameter_units_external_identifier":null,"order":null},{"dataset_parameter_nid":"729342","supplied_name":"cdom","supplied_units":"ppb","value_format":null,"description":"\u003Cp\u003EColored dissolved organic matter; Acquired with WET Labs MCOMS CDOM Fluorometer (excitation 370 nm\/emission 460 nm). A dark offset was subtracted from the raw sensor counts and the result was multiplied by a factory-determined scale factor to obtain colored dissolved organic matter concentration [ppb].\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe dark offset was computed separately for each sensor as the mean of the surface minima (0 \u2013 20 dbar) measured during all profiles between July and September 2013 at BATS (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bco-dmo.org\/dataset\/728371\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.bco-dmo.org\/dataset\/728371\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\n","no_data_value":"nd","conversion_necessary":"no","conversion_utility":null,"parameter_nid":"1891","parameter_description":"\u003Cp\u003EColored dissolved organic matter (CDOM): The optically measurable component of the dissolved organic matter in water\u003C\/p\u003E\n","parameter_max_value":null,"parameter_min_value":null,"parameter_nd_value":"nd","parameter_official_name":"CDOM","parameter_external_identifier":null,"parameter_short_description":"colored or chromophoric dissolved organic matter","parameter_short_name":"CDOM","parameter_units":"various","parameter_units_external_identifier":null,"order":null},{"dataset_parameter_nid":"729343","supplied_name":"trans_counts","supplied_units":"count","value_format":null,"description":"\u003Cp\u003ETransmissometer raw counts; Acquired with WET Labs c-ROVER 2000 transmissometer with 650-nm wavelength and 0.25-m pathlength. 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