Oceanographic Station Data from bottle casts in the South Pacific Ocean and other locations from the CARLOS PORTE from 27 November 1980 to 18 December 1982 (NODC Accession 8500242)

• Format: Dataset
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• Published: NOAA NCEI Environmental Data Archive 2015
• Subjects: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; 8500242; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; SIGMA-T; water depth; WATER TEMPERATURE; bottle; physical; profile; CARLOS PORTE; Caribbean Sea; North Atlantic Ocean; South Pacific Ocean; oceanography; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > CARIBBEAN SEA; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN; Pacific; North Atlantic
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Oceanographic Station Data were collected from bottle casts in the South Pacific Ocean from the CARLOS PORTE. Data were collected from 27 November 1980 to 18 December 1982. Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard Oceanographic Station Data (SD2) format. Full format description is available from NODC at www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-Archive/sd2.html. The Oceanographic Station Data format contains physical-chemical oceanographic data recorded at discrete depth levels. Most of the observations were made using multi-bottle Nansen casts or other types of water samplers. A small amount (about 5 percent) were obtained using electronic CTD (conductivity-temperature-depth) or STD (salinity-temperature-depth) recorders. The CTD/STD data were reported to NODC at depth levels equivalent to Nansen cast data, however, and have been processed and stored the same as the Nansen data. Cruise information (e.g., ship, country, institution), position, date, and time, and reported for each station. The principal measured parameters and temperature and salinity, but dissolved oxygen, phosphate, total phosphorus, silicate, nitrate, nitrite, and pH may be reported. Meteorological conditions at the time of the cast (e.g., air temperature and pressure, wind, waves) may also be reported, as well as auxiliary data such as water color (Forel-Ule scale), water transparency (Secchi disk depth), and depth to bottom. Values of density (sigma-t), sound velocity, and dynamic depth anomaly are computed from measured parameters. Each station contains the measurements taken at the observed depth levels, but also includes data values interpolated to a set of standard depth levels.