ctd

 PI:              Cindy Lee
 of:              Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY (SUNY-SB)
 dataset:         CTD profiles; pres, temp, salinity, etc.
 dates:           08 March 2005 to 14 March 2005  (20050308-20050314)
 location:        N: 43.420  S: 43.400  W: 7.850  E: 7.867
 project/cruise:  MedFlux/EN402
 platform:        R/V Endeavor

 
 Methodology
 
 Contributed:  19 September 2005 on CD-ROM by Cindy Lee 
 Processed:  January 2006 by TMcKee (PO Dept., WHOI) and OCB DMO

 DMO Notes: Data were recovered from Seabird raw data files and are
     reported as 0.5 dbar pressure sorted profiles.  No comparison
     has been done with any in-situ data.  Use with caution.


 Parameter     Description                          Units

 event         unique sampling event number         YYYYMMDDhhmm
 date          start date of event (GMT)            YYYYMMDD
 time          start time of event (GMT)            hhmm
 lon           longitude, negative denotes West     decimal degrees
 lat           latitude, negative denotes South     decimal degrees
 Pmax          pressure, maximum recorded           decibars
 sta           station number                       integer
 press         pressure, from CTD                   decibars
 depth         depth, calculated from CTD pressure  meters
 temp          temperature, from CTD, ITS-90        degrees Celsius
                 (from primary T0 sensor)
 sal           salinity, from CTD, PSS-78 (PSU)     dimensionless
                 (from primary T0,C0 sensors)
 potemp        potential temperature, ITS-90        degrees Celsius
                 (from primary T0,C0 sensors)
 sigma-t       sigma T (density)                    kilograms/meter^3
                 (from primary T0,C0 sensors)
 sigma_0       sigma theta (potential density)      kilograms/meter^3
                 (from primary T0,C0 sensors)
 O2_ml_L       oxygen, dissolved from SBE CTD       ml/liter
 trans         light transmission                   percent
 fluor_chla    fluorescence, Seatech sensor         unknown ?? micrograms/liter ??
                 rescaled, units are numerically 
                 equivalent to chlorophyll-a 
                 concentrations
 fluor_ECO     fluorescence, WET Labs ECO sensor    mg/m^3
 cond          conductivity, from CTD               S/m
                 (from primary C0 sensor)

 nd or -0.000 indicates missing, bad or no data

This document is created from the content of the info file.