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EDDIES 2004 cruises: Survey 2 OCEANUS 404-4 and Transect 2 WB0413
event_log_E2 data processing notes

PI: Dennis McGillicuddy (WHOI) and Nick Bates (BBSR)

27 February 2007: Prepared for OCB data system by Cyndy Chandler, OCB DMO (MCG Dept, WHOI)
from a processing notes file contributed by Courtney Ewart (UCSB).

The merged cruise event log of all recorded sampling events aboard two coordinated EDDIES cruises in 2004 was created and contributed by Courtney Ewart (UCSB) in December 2006. A 12/15/2006 DJM note states that "Updated distance from eddy center column for WBII CTD stations 16-23. Used estimated EC positions based on extrapolation of trajectory-- no ADCP fixes were available because Oceanus was to the east sampling another eddy."

Courtney Ewart
Graduate Program in Marine Science
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
ewart@lifesci.ucsb.edu

The merged event log combines data from:
OC and WB CTD cast sheets
WHOI XBT logs and combined CTD station logs (OCB DMO, WHOI)
Thorium pump cast logs contributed by Steve Pike (WHOI)
Optics and BBOP Metadata from Dave Siegel (UCSB)
and ADCP eddy center trajectories calculated by Valery V. Kosnyrev (WHOI)
Information for the sediment traps could not be located.

Explanation of sampling_type descriptor codes

EC Location of eddy center each day based on ADCP trajectory (V. Kosnyrev). Time was set to 0000 to generate a unique event #, and does not therefore represent GMT 0000.
BBOP WB chl samples taken for BBOP (1, 20, 40, 60m)
CTD Profile No bottles fired. CTD depth profile only.
Go-flo Production array deployment
CTD Niskin bottles fired and sampled
LP/Rad Light probe/Radiometer
MOC Mocness tow
ST Surface tow
Wire unknown sampling event type
   

NOTE: "Rad" and 'LP" are same event type (radiometer) but "OC404-4 event log" info for LP does not match Siegel "Optics Metadata" xls file, so have included both an LP and Rad category here. "LP" events can be eliminated if "Rad" events from optics meta data are correct since "Rad" metadata seems more complete than "LP" metadata.