co2_surf

Data Object co2 - Surface

contact PIs:

name	title
Dr Dorothee C.E. Bakker	Co-Principal Investigator
Professor Andrew J Watson	Principal Investigator
Dr Doug Mackie	Contact

Dataset description

SOIREE Surface water CO2 Data
Note: These xCO2, pCO2 and fCO2 have been calculated with
standards calibrated against NOAA standards and are expected
to be final data.

Acquisition description

See SOIREE Preliminary Voyage Report

Processing description

See SOIREE Preliminary Voyage Report

BCO-DMO Processing Notes
Generated from original file eqout.dat
provided on the Deep-Sea Research II 48 (2001) accompanying CD-Rom

BCO-DMO Edits
- padded DateDec to 6 decimal places
- padded Lat/Lon to 5 decimal places
- padded all other fields to 2 decimal places
- columns organized to BCO-DMO convention
- 'NaN' changed to 'nd'
- column headers changed to BCO-DMO convention

Field Names List

Parameter	Description	Units
DateDec	Decimal days Days in February 1999 (GMT) with 1 February 1999 0:00 = 1.0000	DD.xx
lon	longitude, negative denotes West	decimal degrees
lat	latitude, negative denotes South	decimal degrees
xCO2	xCO2 in dry sample	umol/mol or ppm
pCO2	pCO2 (in water or air)	uatm
fCO2	fCO2 (in water or air)	uatm
fCO2_corr	fCO2 corrected to a constant temperature of 2.5C	uatm
TempCorr	Corrected equilibrator temperature	degrees celsius
SeaSurfTemp	Sea Surface Temperature (corrected after DAS data, CTD at 8 m depth, CTD in fish factory and machineroom temperature)	degrees celsius
sal	Sea Surface Salinity	dimensionless
WindSpd	Wind Speed from the Data Acquisition System (DAS)	meters/sec
AtmPress	Atmospheric Pressure from the Data Aquisition System (DAS)	bar

Platforms List

R/V Tangaroa 61TG_3052

Instruments List

Licor 6262 analyser:
Equilibrator:

This document is created from the content of the BCO-DMO metadata database. 2010-03-13 00:58:25

info app: /home/bco/dbase-v2 v.100108 CLC
Data URL: http://data.bco-dmo.org/jg/serv/BCO/Fe_Synthesis/SOIREE/61TG_3052/co2_surf.