Zooplankton abundance and size structure in the North Atlantic from M87/1_494-1 ...

• 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 particle counter; LOPC-CTD-F Laser Optical Plankton counter together with CTD and fluorescence sensor; Calculated; M87/1a; Meteor 1986; Basin Scale Analysis, Synthesis and Integration EURO-BASIN; North Atlantic; Norwegian Sea
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.836855; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.836855

Data on zooplankton abundance and biovolume were collected in concert with data on the biophysical environment during the development of the phytoplankton spring bloom at 4 stations in the North Atlantic. Station 1 in the Icelandic Basin was visited four times (26 March, 8 April, 18 April, 27 April), Station 2 in the southern Norwegian Sea was visited three times (30 March, 13 April, 23 April), Station 3 in the North Sea was visited twice (2 April, 15 April) and one intermediate station was visited once. The data were sampled 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). 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 ... : / = invalid value ...