Vertical profiles of environmental parameters measured on discrete water samples collected with Niskin bottles at station TARA_131 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] [deep chlorophyll maximum layer (ENVO:010003; [day] [mesopelagic zone (ENVO:00000213)]; [day] [water layer with no specific feature]; [night] [mesopelagic zone (ENVO:00000213)]; [RVSS]; 19-Butanoyloxyfucoxanthin; 19-Hexanoyloxyfucoxanthin; 6=below detection limit; 1=good sample (Picheral et al. 2014); Alkalinity; total; Alloxanthin; Aragonite saturation state; Bacteriochlorophyll a; Basis of event; Bicarbonate ion; Bottle number; Calcite saturation state; Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010); Campaign of event; Carbon; Carbonate ion; Carbonate system computation flag; Carbonate system computation flag (Pesant et al. 2010); Carbon dioxide; partial pressure; Carotene; Chlorophyll a; Chlorophyll b; Chlorophyll b + divinyl chlorophyll b; Chlorophyll c1+c2; Chlorophyll c3; Chlorophyllide a; Comment of event; Conductivity; Date/Time of event; Density; sigma-theta (0); DEPTH; water; derived from CTD; SEA-BIRD; Determined potentiometrically (Edmond 1970); Diadinoxanthin; Diatoxanthin; Divinyl chlorophyll a; Arctic; Arctic Ocean
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.839206; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.839206

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).