Merged discrete water-column data from PAL LTER research cruises along the Western Antarctic Peninsula, from 1991 to 2020. ...

• Main Authors: LTER, Palmer Station Antarctica, Waite, Nicole
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Environmental Data Initiative 2022
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/65c43a4688eccf8ca7cc3a2d07a0cc78; https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/mapbrowse?packageid=knb-lter-pal.310.1

Water samples are collected throughout the water column along the Western Antarctic Peninsula at regular LTER grid stations where CTD casts are preformed and in surface waters at underway stations, where CTD casts are not done, using the ship’s flow-through seawater system. This dataset is the compilation of water samples collected at these stations, merged from other PAL-LTER datasets. Data includes water column Chlorophyll and Phaeopigment concentrations; phytoplankton accessory pigments -including other chlorophyll's (e.g. chlorophyll b), xanthophylls, and carotenes; primary production rates; bacterial production; dissolved organic carbon; particulate organic carbon and nitrogen; dissolved inorganic nutrients; dissolved oxygen, and dissolved inorganic carbon and alkalinity. Measurements of phytoplankton Fv/Fm measured using a FIRe (Fluorescence Induction and Relaxation) fluorometer are also included, though caution is urged as FIRe data has not been corrected nor QCed. Conductivity, temperature, depth, ...