Project: U.S. JGOFS North Atlantic Bloom Experiment

Acronym/Short Name:

NABE

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Start Date:

1989-04

End Date:

1989-07

Geolocation:

North Atlantic

Programs:

U.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Study [U.S. JGOFS]

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Description

One of the first major activities of JGOFS was a multinational pilot project, North Atlantic Bloom Experiment (NABE), carried out along longitude 20° West in 1989 through 1991. The United States participated in 1989 only, with the April deployment of two sediment trap arrays at 48° and 34° North. Three process-oriented cruises where conducted, April through July 1989, from R/V Atlantis II and R/V Endeavor focusing on sites at 46° and 59° North. Coordination of the NABE process-study cruises was supported by NSF-OCE award # 8814229. Ancillary sea surface mapping and AXBT profiling data were collected from NASA's P3 aircraft for a series of one day flights, April through June 1989.

A detailed description of NABE and the initial synthesis of the complete program data collection efforts appear in: Topical Studies in Oceanography, JGOFS: The North Atlantic Bloom Experiment (1993), Deep-Sea Research II, Volume 40 No. 1/2.

The U.S. JGOFS Data management office compiled a preliminary NABE data report of U.S. activities: Slagle, R. and G. Heimerdinger, 1991. U.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Study, North Atlantic Bloom Experiment, Process Study Data Report P-1, April-July 1989. NODC/U.S. JGOFS Data Management Office, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 315 pp. (out of print).

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Additional data for this site are managed by and directly available from the project data site: http://usjgofs.whoi.edu/jg/dir/jgofs/nabe/

Dataset Short Name	Full Dataset Title
bacteria	Bacterial abundance, thymidine incorporation, bottle casts from R/V Endeavor cruise EN198 in the North Atlantic in 1989 (U.S. JGOFS NABE project)
biology	Merged biological observations from bottle samples from R/V Atlantis II cruises AII-119-4, AII-119-5 in the North Atlantic in 1989 (U.S. JGOFS NABE project)
bio_optics	Bio-optics data from R/V Atlantis II cruises AII-119-4, AII-119-5 in the North Atlantic in 1989 (U.S. JGOFS NABE project)
bottle	Merged hydrographic, nutrient and Carbon/Nitrogen data from R/V Atlantis II cruises AII-119-4, AII-119-5 in the North Atlantic in 1989 (U.S. JGOFS NABE project)
CTD	CTD data with beam attenuation and fluorescence from R/V Endeavor cruise EN198 in the North Atlantic (U.S. JGOFS NABE project)
CTD-ML	High resolution CTD and beam attenuation data from R/V Atlantis II cruise AII-119-5 in the North Atlantic in 1989 (U.S. JGOFS NABE project)
CTD-SIO	High resolution CTD and beam attenuation data from R/V Atlantis II cruises AII-119-4, AII-119-5 in the North Atlantic in 1989 (U.S. JGOFS NABE project)
current_meter	S4 current meter observations from MLML particle traps from R/V Atlantis II cruise AII-119-5 in the North Atlantic in 1989 (U.S. JGOFS NABE project)
event_log	Scientific sampling event logs from R/V Endeavor, R/V Atlantis II cruises EN198, AII-119-4, AII-119-5 in the North Atlantic (U.S. JGOFS NABE project)
ISPP14C Synthesis	An ocean productivity database using consistent, globally-acquired data from in situ primary productivity based on 14C assimilation, and including ancillary data, 1985-2008
longtrack	Longtrack near-surface observations from R/V Atlantis II, R/V Endeavor cruises AII-119-4, AII-119-5, EN198 in the North Atlantic (U.S. JGOFS NABE project)
mesozoo_grazing	Mesozooplankton weight-specific carbon ingestion rates from R/V Atlantis II cruises AII-119-4, AII-119-5 in the North Atlantic in 1989 (U.S. JGOFS NABE project)
mesozoo_zoomass	Mesozooplankton biomass from R/V Atlantis II cruises AII-119-4, AII-119-5 in the North Atlantic in 1989 (U.S. JGOFS NABE project)
meteorology	Shipboard Meteorology from R/V Atlantis II cruises AII-119-4, AII-119-5 in the North Atlantic in 1989 (U.S. JGOFS NABE project)
nutrients	Nutrient pump observations from R/V Atlantis II cruise AII-119-5 in the North Atlantic in 1989 (U.S. JGOFS NABE project)
N_uptake	Nitrogen-15 uptake rates from R/V Atlantis II cruise AII-119-5 in the North Atlantic in 1989 (U.S. JGOFS NABE project)
optics	Vertical profiles of PAR, upwelled irradiance and CTD data from R/V Endeavor cruise EN198 in the North Atlantic (U.S. JGOFS NABE project)
optics-4	Bio-Optical Profiler data from R/V Atlantis II cruise AII-119-4 in the North Atlantic in 1989 (U.S. JGOFS NABE project)
optics-5	Bio-Optical Profiler data from R/V Atlantis II cruise AII-119-5 in the North Atlantic in 1989 (U.S. JGOFS NABE project)
ox18	Gross and integrated gross oxygen productivity from R/V Atlantis II cruise AII-119-4 in the North Atlantic in 1989 (U.S. JGOFS NABE project)
P3axbt	Aircraft deployed XBT section from NASA P3 aircraft in the North Atlantic in 1989 (U.S. JGOFS NABE project)
P3_SST_chl	Aircraft observed sea surface temperature and chlorophyll from NASA P3 aircraft in the North Atlantic in 1989 (U.S. JGOFS NABE project)
PAR	Integrated daily incident PAR from R/V Endeavor, R/V Atlantis II cruises EN198, AII-119-4, AII-119-5 in the North Atlantic in 1989 (U.S. JGOFS NABE project)
Particulate matter concentration	Particulate matter concentration from filtered Niskin Bottles from R/V Atlantis II cruise AII-119-4 in the North Atlantic in 1989 (U.S. JGOFS NABE project)
pigments	Pigment concentrations and water bottle cast data from R/V Endeavor, R/V Atlantis II cruises EN198, AII-119-4, AII-119-5 in the North Atlantic in 1989 (U.S. JGOFS NABE project)
pitdata	Particle Interceptor Sediment Trap data from R/V Atlantis II cruise AII-119-4 in the North Atlantic in 1989 (U.S. JGOFS NABE project)
primary_prod	Primary production (carbon assimilation) from R/V Endeavor, R/V Atlantis II cruises EN198, AII-119-4, AII-119-5 in the North Atlantic in 1989 (U.S. JGOFS NABE project)
sail	Longtrack profile data using SAIL-loop system and SeaBird sensors from R/V Endeavor cruise EN198 in the North Atlantic in 1989 (U.S. JGOFS NABE project)
sediment	Sediment trap data including biogenic particle fluxes from U.S. JGOFS sediment trap deployments in the North Atlantic in 1989 (U.S. JGOFS NABE project)
Th234_activity	Thorium 234 activity in particulate and dissolved phases from R/V Atlantis II cruises AII-119-4, AII-119-5 in the North Atlantic in 1989 (U.S. JGOFS NABE project)
trace_metals	Trace metals and water column data from R/V Endeavor, R/V Atlantis II cruises EN198, AII-119-5 in the North Atlantic in 1989 (U.S. JGOFS NABE project)
uptake_aa_15N	Uptake of dissolved free amino acids, 15N uptake, thymidine production from R/V Atlantis II cruise AII-119-5 in the North Atlantic in 1989 (U.S. JGOFS NABE project)
XBT	XBT data from R/V Atlantis II cruise AII-119-5 in the North Atlantic in 1989 (U.S. JGOFS NABE project)

Deployments

Total: 33

Cruise/Deployment	Platform Type	Start Date	Chief/Co-chief Scientist
AII-119-2	vessel	28 Mar 1989	Susumu Honjo
AII-119-4	vessel	17 Apr 1989	John F. Marra
AII-119-5	vessel	15 May 1989	Hugh W. Ducklow
Aircraft_P3_NABE	aircraft	26 Apr 1989	Frank E. Hoge
Baruna Jaya 1993-xx	vessel	08 Aug 1993	A. G. Ilahude
Baruna Jaya 1994-xx	vessel	28 Jan 1994	A. G. Ilahude
CH-05-08	vessel	05 Jul 2008	Robert D. Vaillancourt John F. Marra
Darwin_45B	vessel	01 Apr 1990	Steven Manganini
EN198	vessel	28 Jun 1989	William Broenkow
EN203	vessel	04 Oct 1989	Steven Manganini
EN215	vessel
EN224	vessel	27 Apr 1991
EN227	vessel	05 Sep 1991
KIWI7	vessel	02 Dec 1997	Richard Barber
KIWI9	vessel	13 Feb 1998	Wilford D. Gardner
KN112	vessel	01 Apr 1985	John F. Marra
MV85xx	vessel	16 Aug 1985
NABE_N34	mooring	04 Apr 1989
NABE_N48	mooring	04 Apr 1989
NBP-96-04A	vessel	02 Oct 1996	Walker O. Smith
NBP-97-01	vessel	13 Jan 1997	John F. Marra
NBP-97-03	vessel	04 Apr 1997	Hugh W. Ducklow
NBP-97-08	vessel	05 Nov 1997	Walker O. Smith
OC182-01	vessel	26 Feb 1987	John F. Marra
OC186-02	vessel	16 May 1987	John F. Marra
OC192-01	vessel	21 Aug 1987	John F. Marra
OC196-02	vessel	28 Nov 1987	John F. Marra
TT043	vessel	08 Jan 1995	Michael R. Roman
TT045	vessel	14 Mar 1995	John F. Marra
TT049	vessel	17 Jul 1995	Richard Barber
TT050	vessel	18 Aug 1995	Sharon L. Smith
TT053	vessel	29 Oct 1995	William M. Balch
TT054	vessel	30 Nov 1995	Wilford D. Gardner

Project Coordinators

Person	Roles	Affiliation
Hugh W. Ducklow	Lead Principal Investigator	Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS)
Dr John Martin	Co-Principal Investigator	Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (MLML)
Cynthia L. Chandler	Contact, BCO-DMO Data Manager	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
George Heimerdinger	Data Manager	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)

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