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Data Object nutrients
contact PIs:
name        title
Dr Mak Saito         Principal Investigator

Dataset description

Nutrient analysis of water samples drawn from Trace Metal Rosette bottle casts.

Acquisition description

7 October 2009

still awaiting documentation from originating PI

February 2010: units for nutrient data confirmed to be micromolar; Cobalt measurements will be added in the future and are picomolar

Processing description


Field Names List

ParameterDescriptionUnits
cruise_idShip's cruise designationdimensionless
staStation numberdimensionless
castCast numberdimensionless
datedate; reported in GMT as YYYYMMDD (year; month; day)YYYYMMDD
yearyear, reported as YYYYYYYY
monthmonth of year; numeric 1 to 12MM
dayday of month; numeric 1 to 31DD
timetime of day; reported in GMT as hhmm hhmm
lon_360longitude ranging from 0 to 360 degreesdecimal degrees
lonlongitude; East is positive, West is negativedecimal degrees
latlatitude; North is positive, South is negativedecimal degrees
depth_wwater depth, in metersmeters
depthSample depthmeters
PO4Phosphate concentrationmicromolar
N++NNitrate plus nitrite concentrationmicromolar
SilicateSilicate (Orthosilicic Acid) concentration micromolar
NO2Nitrite concentrationmicromolar
NH4Ammonium concentrationmicromolar
Run_IDrun ID of sampledimensionless
ev_codeevent code; type and number of sampling event; matches cruise event logdimensionless

Platforms List

R/V Knorr KN192-5

Instruments List

  1. Trace Metal Bottle:

    Trace Metal Rosette (11 bottle) plus CTD


This document is created from the content of the BCO-DMO metadata database.    2010-03-17  03:01:43

info app: /home/bco/dbase-v2 v.100108 CLC
Data URL: http://data.bco-dmo.org/jg/serv/BCO/CoFeMUG/KN192-5/nutrients.