Vertical profiles of environmental parameters measured from physical, optical and imaging sensors during station TARA_146 of the Tara Oceans expedition 2009-2013

• Main Authors: Picheral, Marc, Searson, Sarah, Taillandier, Vincent, Bricaud, Annick, Boss, Emmanuel, Stemmann, Lars, Gorsky, Gabriel, Tara Oceans Consortium, Coordinators, Tara Oceans Expedition, Participants
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2014
• Subjects: Event label; Optional event label; Campaign of event; Basis of event; Station label; Method/Device of event; URI of event; Comment of event; File name; Date/Time of event; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; DEPTH, water; Pressure, water; Temperature, water; Conductivity; Salinity; Temperature, water, potential; Density, sigma-theta 0; Oxygen; Nitrate; Chlorophyll a; Angular scattering coefficient, 470 nm; Optical backscattering coefficient, 470 nm; Backscattering coefficient of particles, 470 nm; Fluorescence, colored dissolved organic matter; Optical beam attenuation coefficient, 660 nm; Beam attenuation coefficient of particles; Particle concentration, fractionated; Particle volume, fractionated; Rosette Vertical Sampling System; derived from CTD, SEA-BIRD; derived from SBE43 oxygen sensor; derived from SATLANTIC ISUS sensor; derived from chlorophyll fluorescence sensor, WET Labs; at 117 degrees with respect to the incident beam; integrated over the angular domain 90-180 degree; Underwater vision profiler, UVP; TARA_20120212Z; SV Tara; Fondation Tara Expeditions FondTara; Tara Oceans Expedition TOE-2009-2013; Arctic; Arctic Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.836531; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.836531

The Tara Oceans Expedition (2009-2013) sampled the world oceans on board a 36 m long schooner, collecting environmental data and organisms from viruses to planktonic metazoans for later analyses using modern sequencing and state-of-the-art imaging technologies. Tara Oceans Data are particularly suited to study the genetic, morphological and functional diversity of plankton. The present data set includes properties of seawater, particulate matter and dissolved matter from physical, optical and imaging sensors mounted on a vertical sampling system (Rosette) used during the 2009-2013 tara Oceans Expedition. It comprised 2 pairs of conductivity and temperature sensors (SEABIRD components), and a complete set of WEtLabs optical sensors, including chrorophyll and CDOM fluorometers, a 25 cm transmissiometer, and a one-wavelength backscatter meter. In addition, a SATLANTIC ISUS nitrate sensor and a Hydroptic Underwater Vision Profiler (UVP) were mounted on the rosette. In the Arctic Ocean and Arctic Seas (2013), a second oxygen sensor (SBE43) and a four frequency Aquascat acoustic profiler were added. The system was powered on specific Li-Ion batteries and data were self-recorded at 24HZ. Sensors have all been factory calibrated before, during and after the four year program. Oxygen was validated using climatologies (WOA09). Nitrate and Fluorescence data were adjusted with discrete measurements from Niskin bottles mounted on the Rosette, and optical darks were performed monthly on board. A total of 839 quality checked vertical profiles were made during the tara Oceans expedition 2009-2013.