Vertical profiles of environmental parameters measured on discrete water samples collected with Niskin bottles at station TARA_103 during the Tara Oceans expedition 2009-2013

• Main Authors: Picheral, Marc, Searson, Sarah, Taillandier, V, Bricaud, Annick, Boss, Emmanuel, Ras, Josephine, Claustre, Hervé, Ouhssain, Mustapha, Morin, Pascal, Coppola, Laurent, Gattuso, Jean-Pierre, Metzl, Nicolas, Thuillier, Doris, Gorsky, G, Tara Oceans Consortium, Coordinators, Tara Oceans Expedition, Participants
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2014
• Subjects: [day] [water layer with no specific feature]; [RVSS]; Basis of event; Bottle number; Campaign of event; Comment of event; Conductivity; Date/Time of event; Density; sigma-theta (0); DEPTH; water; derived from CTD; SEA-BIRD; Event label; File name; Fondation Tara Expeditions; FondTara; Guayaquil to Puerto Ayora; Stations: TARA_103-106; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; Method/Device of event; Optional event label; Pressure; Rosette Vertical Sampling System; Salinity; Station label; SV Tara; TARA_20110501Z; TARA_20110502T1622Z_103_EVENT_CAST; Tara_Oceans_2009-2013; Tara Oceans Expedition; Temperature; potential; URI of event; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Guayaquil
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.839118; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.839118

The Tara Oceans Expedition (2009-2013) was a global survey of ocean ecosystems aboard the Sailing Vessel Tara. It carried out extensive measurements of evironmental conditions and collected plankton (viruses, bacteria, protists and metazoans) for later analysis 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 that were measured from discrete water samples collected with Niskin bottles during the 2009-2013 Tara Oceans expedition. Properties include pigment concentrations from HPLC analysis (10 depths per vertical profile, 25 pigments per depth), the carbonate system (Surface and 400m; pH (total scale), CO2, pCO2, fCO2, HCO3, CO3, Total alkalinity, Total carbon, OmegaAragonite, OmegaCalcite, and dosage Flags), nutrients (10 depths per vertical profile; NO2, PO4, N02/NO3, SI, quality Flags), DOC, CDOM, and dissolved oxygen isotopes. The Service National d'Analyse des Paramètres Océaniques du CO2, at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, determined CT and AT potentiometrically. More than 200 vertical profiles of these properties were made across the world ocean. DOC, CDOM and dissolved oxygen isotopes are available only for the Arctic Ocean and Arctic Seas (2013).