bottle_salts

Data Object bottle_salts_PS

contact PIs:

name	title
Dr Ken O. Buesseler	Principal Investigator

Dataset description

Polar Star bottle salts for CTD conductivity sensor calibration

Acquisition description

 dates:           16 February 2002 to 20 February 2002  (20020216-20020220)
 location:        N: -65.854  S: -65.962  W: -172.227  E: -170.789
 project/cruise:  SOFeX/USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10) cruise: PS02

Methodology: CTD salinities were compared with Niskin bottle sample salinities;
    details are available (here)

Processing description

 Change history: YYMMDD
    060510: original data received from Ken Buesseler (WHOI);
    070208: added to OCB database by Cyndy Chandler, OCB DMO, (cchandler@whoi.edu)
  
 OCB DMO Note: 
    070208: use event to retrieve geospatial- temporal- data from event log

Field Names List

Parameter	Description	Units
event	unique sampling event composite of day, month, year and time (GMT)	DDMMYY_hhmm
station	station location number	alpha_numeric
depth	depth, calculated from pressure	meters
temp	temperature, from CTD, ITS-90	degrees Celsius
sal_CTD	salinity, from CTD, PSS-78 (PSU)	dimensionless
sal_bot	salinity, bottle sample PSU	dimensionless

Platforms List

USCGC Polar Star PS02_2002

Instruments List

Niskin:

This document is created from the content of the BCO-DMO metadata database. 2009-11-22 09:24:05

info app: /home/ocb/dbase v.090827 CLC
Data URL: http://ocb.whoi.edu/jg/serv/OCB/SOFeX/Polar_Star/bottle_salts.