Vertical profiles of environmental parameters measured from physical, optical and imaging sensors during station TARA_003 of the Tara Oceans expedition 2009-2013

• Main Authors: Picheral, Marc, Searson, Sarah, Taillandier, V, Bricaud, Annick, Boss, Emmanuel, Stemmann, Lars, Gorsky, G, Tara Oceans Consortium, Coordinators, Tara Oceans Expedition, Participants
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2014
• Subjects: [CABLE]+[sbe19]; [CABLE]+[sbe19]+[NISKIN]; [day] [water layer with no specific feature]; Basis of event; Campaign of event; Chlorophyll a; Comment of event; Conductivity; CTD (sbe19); CTD (sbe19) and Niskin bottles (8-L or 12-L) triggered with messengers; Date/Time of event; Density; sigma-theta (0); DEPTH; water; derived from chlorophyll fluorescence sensor; WET Labs; derived from CTD; SEA-BIRD; Event label; File name; Fondation Tara Expeditions; FondTara; Latitude of event; Lisbon to Tangier; Stations: TARA_003-004; Longitude of event; Method/Device of event; Optional event label; Pressure; Salinity; Station label; SV Tara; TARA_20090913T1040Z_003_EVENT_CAST; TARA_20090913T1656Z_003_EVENT_CAST; TARA_20090913Z; Tara_Oceans_2009-2013; Tara Oceans Expedition; Temperature; potential; URI of event; Arctic; Arctic Ocean
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.836325; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.836325

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.