light_summary

Data Object Light - summary

contact PIs:

name	title
Dr Philip W. Boyd	Co-Principal Investigator
Mr Mark Gall	Principal Investigator
Dr Doug Mackie	Contact

Dataset description

SOIREE Summary of daily light levels, attenuation coefficients and critical depths

Acquisition description

Processing description

See SOIREE Preliminary Voyage Report

For more information refer to Gall et al (2001)
"Phytoplankton processes (Part 2): Rates of primary
production and factors controlling algal growth during the
Southern Ocean Iron RElease Experiment (SOIREE)".

BCO-DMO Processing Notes
Generated from original file Light_Summary.xls Tab: LightDataSummary
provided on the Deep-Sea Research II 48 (2001) accompanying CD-Rom

BCO-DMO Edits
- parameter names modified to conform to BCO-DMO convention
- date reformatted to YYYYMMDD
- noontime lat/lon position inserted from ships track data to make these data mapable

Field Names List

Parameter	Description	Units
PAR	Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) -400-700 nm.	M/m^2/day
date	Date (GMT)	YYYYMMDD
Kpar	Light Attenuation Estimates Calculated from the beam attenuation relationship with CTDKo.	(tbd)
Ze	Defined as the 1% Light Level (Kirk, 1994).	(tbd)
Zc	Critical Light Depth The critical light depth was calculated from the equations outlined in Nelson & Smith (1991)	(tbd)
lat	latitude, negative denotes South	decimal degrees
lon	longitude, negative denotes West	decimal degrees

Platforms List

R/V Tangaroa 61TG_3052

Instruments List

CTD Seabird 911:
NIWA's Seabird 911plus CTD and related instrumentation

This document is created from the content of the BCO-DMO metadata database. 2010-02-09 14:39:16

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