Zooplankton abundance and size structure in the North Atlantic from MSM26_131-4 ...

• Main Author: Basedow, Sünnje Linnéa
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2014
• Subjects: Number; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; DATE/TIME; DEPTH, water; Temperature, water; Salinity; Chlorophyll total; Abundance per volume; Biovolume per volume; Laser Optical Plankton Counter with CTD; LOPC-CTD-F Laser Optical Plankton counter together with CTD and fluorescence sensor; Calculated; MSM26; Maria S. Merian; Basin Scale Analysis, Synthesis and Integration EURO-BASIN; Canada; Royce; Iceland; Labrador Sea; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.836690; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.836690

Data on zooplankton abundance and biovolume were collected in concert with data on the biophysical environment at 9 stations in the North Atlantic, from the Iceland Basin in the East to the Labrador Sea in the West. The data were sampled along vertical profiles by a Laser Optical Plankton Counter (LOPC, Rolls Royce Canada Ltd.) that was mounted on a carousel water sampler together with a Conductivity-Temperature-Depth sensor (CTD, SBE19plusV2, Seabird Electronics, Inc., USA) and a fluorescence sensor (F, ECO Puck chlorophyll a fluorometer, WET Labs Inc., USA). Based on the LOPC data, abundance (individuals/m**3) and biovolume (mm3/m**3) were calculated as described in the LOPC Software Operation Manual [(Anonymous, 2006), http://www.brooke-ocean.com/index.html]. LOPC data were regrouped into 49 size groups of equal log10(body volume) increments, see Edvardsen et al. (2002, doi:10.3354/meps227205). LOPC data quality was checked as described in Basedow et al. (2013, doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2012.10.005). ...