| Acartia tonsa mortality collected from a plankton net with associated CTD data from 5 day-trips in mid-Chesapeake Bay from August to October 2013 (CopesPopDynHypoZone project) | Beam attenuation as recorded by SBE software
| bat |
| Processed CTD data with thermodynamic calculations from R/V Atlantic Explorer cruise AE2207 to the Bermuda Atlantic Time Series (BATS) station in April 2022 | Wet Labs C-Star Beam Attenuation
| beam |
| CTD data from R/V Atlantic Explorer cruise AE2207 to the Bermuda Atlantic Time Series (BATS) station in April 2022 | Wet Labs C-Star Beam Transmissometer Attenuation
| CStarAt0 |
| All bottle data collected from cruises W0306A, W0308C, AT11-17, AT11-30, TUIM14MV, TN200 from the Coastal Waters off Washington State and Vancouver Island; 2004-2006 (ECOHAB-PNW project) | Beam Attenuation
| bat |
| ADCP 600 and 150 KHz 5 minute and 1 hour averages; along track and shallow and deep sites; from R/V Seward Johnson SJ9506 and SJ9508 cruises?in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bankareas during 1995 (GB project) | | beam |
| Adenosine triphosphate and microbial biomass measurements from the Chesapeake Bay, sampled aboard RV Fay Slover on April 11, 2018 | Beam attenuation
| beamc |
| CTD data and particulate organic carbon, particulate organic nitrogen, and adenosine triphosphate from Niskin bottle samples collected along the coastal ocean off Virginia Beach into the Chesapeake Bay aboard RV Fay Slover on April 1, 2024 | Beam attenuation
| Attenuance |
| Bottle profile data from the R/V Neil Armstrong cruise AR16 in the Western North Atlantic Ocean from 2017-05-04 to 2017-05-20 | Beam Attenuation
| CStarAt0 |
| CTD profile data from the R/V Neil Armstrong cruise AR16 in the Western North Atlantic Ocean from 2017-05-04 to 2017-05-20 | Beam Attenuation WET Labs C-Star
| CStarAt0 |
| CTD data collected in the Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California from R/V Atlantis cruise AT42-05 in 2018 and R/V Falkor cruise FK190211 in 2019 | Beam Attenuation, WET Labs C-Star
| CStarAt0 |
| Seawater concentrations of dissolved and total Th-232 and Th-230 collected from the R/V Atlantic Explorer (AE1410) cruise from Barbados to Bermuda during 2014 | Beam Attenuation Coefficient from the transmissometer
| BAC |
| Two decibar averaged CTD profiles collected at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) site from October 1988 through June 2025 | Beam Attenuation Coefficient
| BAC |
| Raw and derived parameters from a WET Labs C-Star Beam Transmissometer on Biofloat 48 in the subpolar North Atlantic and Iceland Basin in 2008 (NAB 2008 project) | Particulate attenuation coefficient, cp at 652 nm, intercalibrated with Knorr 193-03 transmissometer.
| beam_cp |
| Survey biogeochemical data from R/V Atlantis AT32, AT34, AT38, and AT39-06 in the western North Atlantic Ocean (35°N to 57°N; 45°W) in Nov. 2015, May 2016, Sep 2017, Mar/Apr 2018 | Bean Attenuation; 1st sensor
| BeamAt |
| BIOS-SCOPE survey biogeochemical data as collected on Atlantic Explorer cruises (AE1614, AE1712, AE1819, AE1916) from 2016 through 2019 | Beam attenuation coefficient
| BAC |
| Bottle data from CTD casts conducted on R/V Sally Ride cruise SR1805 in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific Ocean from March to April 2018 | beam attenuation
| CStarAt0 |
| Bottle data from CTD casts conducted on R/V Sally Ride cruise SR1805 in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific Ocean from March to April 2018 | standard deviation of CStarAt0
| CStarAt0_sdev |
| Niskin bottle basic hydrographic data, thorium-234, pigments and nutrients from VERTIGO cruises KM0414, ZHNG09RR from the Hawaiian Islands HOT Site, NW SubArctic Pacific Ocean K2 Site, 2004-2005 (VERTIGO project) | beam attenuation (raw data in volts)
| beam |
| Two decibar averaged CTD profiles collected during BATS Validation (BVAL) cruises from April 1991 through July 2025 | Beam Attenuation Coefficient
| BAC |
| Depth profile data from Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series Validation cruise 46 (BVAL46) in the Sargasso Sea from Sept-Oct. 2011 | Attenuation meter; 25 cm path length
| Beam_attenuation |
| Size fractionated Particulate Carbon Flux 100-500m measured by autonomous Carbon Flux Explorers deployed during the CCE-LTER process study (P1706) between June 2 and July 1, 2017 in the California Current Regime. | Attenuance flux in specific bin
| ATNflux |
| Size fractionated Particulate Carbon Flux 100-500m measured by autonomous Carbon Flux Explorers deployed during the CCE-LTER process study (P1706) between June 2 and July 1, 2017 in the California Current Regime. | Attenuance flux in specific bin with correction
| ATNflux1 |
| Size fractionated Particulate Carbon Flux 100-500m measured by autonomous Carbon Flux Explorers deployed during the CCE-LTER process study (P1706) between June 2 and July 1, 2017 in the California Current Regime. | Flux summed across all bins from large to small
| cumATNflux |
| Size fractionated Particulate Carbon Flux 100-500m measured by autonomous Carbon Flux Explorers deployed during the CCE-LTER process study (P1706) between June 2 and July 1, 2017 in the California Current Regime. | Flux summed across all bins from large to small with correction
| cumATNflux1 |
| Size fractionated Particulate Carbon Flux 100-500m measured by autonomous Carbon Flux Explorers deployed during the CCE-LTER process study (P1706) between June 2 and July 1, 2017 in the California Current Regime. | Number flux summed from large to smallest particle
| cumNOflux |
| Size fractionated Particulate Carbon Flux 100-500m measured by autonomous Carbon Flux Explorers deployed during the CCE-LTER process study (P1706) between June 2 and July 1, 2017 in the California Current Regime. | Number flux summed from large to smallest particle with corrections
| cumNOflux1 |
| Size fractionated Particulate Carbon Flux 100-500m measured by autonomous Carbon Flux Explorers deployed during the CCE-LTER process study (P1706) between June 2 and July 1, 2017 in the California Current Regime. | Total sum of flux
| maxATNflux |
| Size fractionated Particulate Carbon Flux 100-500m measured by autonomous Carbon Flux Explorers deployed during the CCE-LTER process study (P1706) between June 2 and July 1, 2017 in the California Current Regime. | Total sum of flux with correction
| maxATNflux1 |
| Size fractionated Particulate Carbon Flux 100-500m measured by autonomous Carbon Flux Explorers deployed during the CCE-LTER process study (P1706) between June 2 and July 1, 2017 in the California Current Regime. | Total sum of number flux
| maxNOflux |
| Size fractionated Particulate Carbon Flux 100-500m measured by autonomous Carbon Flux Explorers deployed during the CCE-LTER process study (P1706) between June 2 and July 1, 2017 in the California Current Regime. | Total sum of number flux with corrections
| maxNOflux1 |
| Size fractionated Particulate Carbon Flux 100-500m measured by autonomous Carbon Flux Explorers deployed during the CCE-LTER process study (P1706) between June 2 and July 1, 2017 in the California Current Regime. | Number flux in bin
| NOflux |
| Size fractionated Particulate Carbon Flux 100-500m measured by autonomous Carbon Flux Explorers deployed during the CCE-LTER process study (P1706) between June 2 and July 1, 2017 in the California Current Regime. | NOflux1 - number flux in bin but with corrections
| NOflux1 |
| One meter binned CTD data collected aboard the R/V Pelican during PE17-04 and PE17-20 along the Northern Gulf of Mexico, specifically the Louisiana Shelf region dominated by the discharge of the Mississippi River plume. | Beam Attenuation on WET Labs C-Star
| Beam_Attenuation |
| Water column data sampled aboard the R/V Pelican during August and September 2016 and May 2017 in Northern Gulf of Mexico, specifically the Louisiana Shelf region dominated by the discharge of the Mississippi River plume. | Beam Attenuation on WET Labs C-Star
| Beam_Attenuation |
| Data from custom instrument (CLASS) measured on R/V Endeavor cruise (EN614) in May 2018 | Beam Attenuation from WET Labs C-Star
| CStarAt0 |
| Processed first profiles of sensor data from AUV Clio taken on R/V Atlantis (CliOMZ AT50-10 expedition) from Golfito Costa Rica to San Diego USA in May-June 2023. | calculated beam attenuation coefficient
| TransCalcBeam |
| Summaries of tigerclaw and bushbaby tracers from AUV Clio taken on R/V Atlantis (CliOMZ AT50-10 expedition) from Golfito Costa Rica to San Diego USA in May-June 2023. | mean calculated beam attenuation coefficient
| MeanTransAtten |
| Summaries of tigerclaw and bushbaby tracers from AUV Clio taken on R/V Atlantis (CliOMZ AT50-10 expedition) from Golfito Costa Rica to San Diego USA in May-June 2023. | standard deviation of the calculated beam attenuation coefficient
| StdTransAtten |
| Vessel CTD profiles in the outer reaches of the Damariscotta River Estuary in the mid-coast region of Maine from June 2017 to July 2018 | In situ light scattering by particles
| Beam_Attenuation |
| Underway/continuous measurements of O2, O2/Ar and optically-based POC in the North Pacific from 2017-09-05 to 2017-09-27 | continuous surface particulate beam attenuation coefficient calibrated to particulate organic carbon concentrations (POC)
| beam_attenuation_coeff_POC |
| Depth profiles of temperature, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, pH, chlorophyll fluorescence, etc., collected with a SeaBird SBE 25plus CTD in Lake Michigan during 2017, 2018, and 2019 | Beam attenuation over 25 cm path length; accuracy = 0.02%
| BeamAtt |
| SOFeX project CTD profile data from R/V Melville, R/V Roger Revelle, USCGC Polar Star cruises COOK19MV, DRFT08RR, PS02_2002 from the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand in 2002 (SOFeX project) | Beam attenuation Chelsea/Seatech
| beam_att |
| CTD data collected on three NSF RAPID Plankton cruises on R/V Point Sur and R/V Pelican in the Gulf of Mexico during 2017-2018 | Beam attenuation
| Beam_Attenuation |
| Surface and mixed-layer averaged diel cycles of O2 and optically-based POC from repeated CTD casts in the North Pacific from 2017-09-05 to 2017-09-25 | mixed-layer averaged particulate beam attenuation coefficient (sensor mounted on CTD frame) calibrated to particulate organic carbon concentrations
| beam_attenuation_coeff_POC |
| CTD profile data, including beam attenuation from R/V Thomas G. Thompson TT039, TT043, TT045, TT049, TT050, TT053, TT054 cruises in the Arabian Sea (U.S. JGOFS Arabian Sea project) | beam attenuation due to particles
| beam_cp |
| Final version CTD, including beam attenuation optics from RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer and R/V Roger Revelle cruises in the Southern Ocean, 1997-1998 (U.S. JGOFS AESOPS project) | beam attenuation due to particles
| beam_cp |
| CTD bottle data from R/V Pelican cruises PE03-NGOMEX, PE04-NGOMEX, PE06-NGOMEX, PE09-05, PE11-06 in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, 28-30N 89-94W; 2003-2010 (GoMX NGOMEX project) | Beam Attenuation Chelsea/Seatech/WET Labs CStar average
| Bat_avg |
| CTD bottle data from R/V Pelican cruises PE03-NGOMEX, PE04-NGOMEX, PE06-NGOMEX, PE09-05, PE11-06 in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, 28-30N 89-94W; 2003-2010 (GoMX NGOMEX project) | Beam Attenuation Chelsea/Seatech/WET Labs CStar standard of deviation
| Bat_sdev |
| CTD Averaged Bottle Data from R/V Knorr KN197-08 in the Amazon River plume, NE coast of South America from May to June 2010 (ANACONDAS project) | Beam Attenuation averaged from all bottles tripped at the same nominal pressure
| Avg_BeamAtten |
| CTD Averaged Bottle Data from R/V Knorr KN197-08 in the Amazon River plume, NE coast of South America from May to June 2010 (ANACONDAS project) | Beam Attenuation at bottle trip
| BeamAtten |
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