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Data Object CTD profiles
contact PIs:
name        title
Dr Dennis McGillicuddy         Principal Investigator
Dr James R. Ledwell         Principal Investigator
Dr Nick Bates         Principal Investigator

Dataset description

CTD pressure, temperature, salinity profiles

Acquisition description

Processing description


Field Names List

ParameterDescriptionUnits
eventunique sampling event numberYYYYMMDDhhmm
datestart date of event (GMT)YYYYMMDD
timestart time of event (GMT)hhmm
lonlongitude, negative denotes Westdecimal degrees
latlatitude, negative denotes Southdecimal degrees
Pmaxpressure, maximum during castdecibars
stastation numberdimensionless
presspressure, from CTDdecibars
depthdepth, calculated from pressuremeters
temptemperature, from CTD, ITS-90 (from primary T0 sensor)degrees Celsius
potemppotential temperature, ITS-90 (from primary T0,C0 sensors)degrees Celsius
salsalinity, from CTD, PSS-78 (PSU) (from primary T0,C0 sensors)dimensionless
sigma_0sigma theta (potential density) (from primary T0,C0 sensors)kilograms/meter^3
temp_Stemperature, from CTD, ITS-90 (from secondary T1 sensor)degrees Celsius
sal_Ssalinity, from CTD, PSS-78 (PSU) (from secondary T1,C1 sensors)dimensionless
sigma_Ssigma theta (potential density) (from secondary T1,C1 sensors)kilograms/meter^3
condconductivity, from CTD (from primary C0 sensor)Siemens/meter
cond_Sconductivity, from CTD (from secondary C1 sensor)Siemens/meter
O2_ml_Loxygen, dissolved from SBE CTDmilliliters/liter
fluor_chlafluorescence, from CTD profiler WET Labs ECO-AFL/FL sensor, rescaled units are numerically equivalent to chlorophyll-a concentrationsmicrograms/liter
PARirradiance, Biospherical/LicormicroEinsteins/meter^2/second
SPARsurface irradiancemicroEinsteins/meter^2/second
translight transmission from Chelsea/Seatech/Wetlab CStar 0.000 indicates missing or no data percent/100
sigma_0_Ssigma theta (potential density) (from secondary T1,C1 sensors)kilograms/meter^3
O2_umol_kgoxygen, dissolved from SBE CTDmicromoles/kilogram
turbseapoint turbidity meter dataFTU
castcast number for eventdimensionless
O2_mg_Loxygen, dissolved from SBE 43milligrams/liter
fluorfluorescence, (wetlabs eco) micrograms/liter
O2_ml_L_Soxygen, dissolved (secondary)milliliters/liter
sigma-tsigma -T (density) from primary cond and tempkilograms/meter^3

Platforms List

R/V Oceanus OC404-1 R/V Oceanus OC404-4 R/V Oceanus OC415-1 R/V Oceanus OC415-2 R/V Oceanus OC415-3
R/V Oceanus OC415-4 R/V Weatherbird II WB0409 R/V Weatherbird II WB0413

Instruments List

  1. Conductivity, Temperature, Depth:


This document is created from the content of the BCO-DMO metadata database.    2009-11-22  09:21:22

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Data URL: http://ocb.whoi.edu/jg/serv/OCB/EDDIES/WB0409/ctd.