Underway physical oceanography and carbonate chemistry measured during the EURO-BASIN cruise M87/1 (Deep Convection Cruise)

• Main Author: Bellerby, Richard G J
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2014
• Subjects: Basin Scale Analysis; Synthesis and Integration; CT; Deep Convection Cruise; DEPTH; water; EURO-BASIN; Event label; Faroe Islands; Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; M87/1a; M87/1a-track; M87/1b; M87/1b-track; Meteor (1986); Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); Pressure; atmospheric; Pressure at equilibration; Salinity; Temperature; Temperature at equilibration; Time Stamp; Underway cruise track measurements; xCO2 (water) at equilibrator temperature (dry air); Greenland; Greenland-Scotland Ridge; Nordic Seas; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.830273; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.830273

The track of the cruise, and the location of the different stations cover a large range of water masses, many of which take part in the exchange across the Greenland-Scotland Ridge, and of importance for the biogeochemical fluxes in the region. These water masses are of very different origins, which can be observed in the concentration of the different biogeochemical parameters. The concentrations are a result of the combination of the physical and biogeochemical environment in each formation region, and the processes acting on the water masses as they are transported away from the formation areas. The aim of the biogeochemistry measurements was to achieve a better understanding of the strength and variability of the biological carbon pump in the North Atlantic and Nordic Seas.