bottle

 PI:              Cindy Lee
 of:              Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY (SUNY-SB)
 dataset:         Niskin bottle basic CTD hydrographic data
 dates:           07 May 2003 to 13 May 2003  (20030507-20030513)
 location:        N: 43.446  S: 43.406  W: 7.829  E: 7.944
 project/cruise:  MedFlux/SJIIMay03
 platform:        R/V Seward Johnson II

 
 Methodology
 
 Contributed:  19 September 2005 on CD-ROM by Cindy Lee 
 Processed:  December 2005 by OCB DMO

 DMO Notes: Data were recovered from Seabird raw data files.  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
 sta           station number                       integer
 bot           Niskin bottle number                 integer
 depth_n       depth, nominal                       meters
 depth         depth, calculated from CTD pressure  meters
 press         pressure, from CTD                   decibars
 temp          temperature, from CTD, ITS-90        degrees Celsius
                 (from primary T0 sensor)
 potemp        potential temperature, ITS-90        degrees Celsius
                 (from primary T0,C0 sensors)
 sal           salinity, from CTD, PSS-78 (PSU)     dimensionless
                 (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, from CTD profiler      micrograms/liter
                 rescaled, units are numerically 
                 equivalent to chlorophyll-a 
                 concentrations
 cond          conductivity, from CTD               mS/cm
                 (from primary C0 sensor)

 nd  indicates missing, bad or no data

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