Navigation and meteorological data during Tara Oceans expedition 2009-2013

• Main Authors: Météo France, Pesant, Stephane, Tara Oceans Consortium, Coordinators, Tara Oceans Expedition, Participants, Cohuet, Jean-Baptiste, Boss, Emmanuel
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2017
• Subjects: [BATOS]; [day/night] [atmospheric boundary layer]; Abu Dhabi to Muscat; Stations: none; Algiers to Barcelona; Stations: TARA_008-011; ALTITUDE; Anemometer; Windsonic WS2 GILL; Ascencion to Rio de Janiero; Stations: TARA_072-076; Athens to Beyrouth; Stations: TARA_027-028; Atseranana to Mamoudzou; Stations: TARA_053-054; Barcelona to Nice; Barometer PTU200; Basis of event; Bermuda to Horta; Stations: TARA_148-151; Beyrouth to Alexandria; Stations: TARA_029-030; Bizerte to Naples; Stations: TARA_014; Buenos Aires to Ushuaia; Stations: TARA_079b-083; Calculated from GPS; Campaign of event; CapeTown to Ascencion; Stations: TARA_067-071; Comment of event; Course; DATE/TIME; Dubrovnik to Athens; Stations: TARA_025-026; Dudinka to Pevek; Stations: TARA_182-192; Easter Island to Guayaquil; Stations: TARA_098-102; Event label; Fondation Tara Expeditions; FondTara; Guayaquil to Puerto Ayora; Stations: TARA_103-106; Guayaquil to Totegegie; Stations: TARA_110-113; Honolulu to San Diego; Stations: TARA_131-135; Horta to La Coruna; Dudinka; Guayaquil; Pevek; Ushuaia
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.873568; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.873568

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. During the entire expedition (2009-2013), underway measurements were obtained from a meteorological station (BATOS), a thermosalinograph (TSG, SBE 45), a Fast Repetition Rate Flurometer (FRRF, LIFT-FRR01), and a spectrophotometer (WETLabs AC-S). In 2013 underway measurements were enhanced by adding a Photosynthetically Available Radiation (PAR) sensor (QCP2350, Biospherical Instruments, Inc.), a laser spectrofluorometer (WETLabs ALFA, Chekalyuk et al., 2012) that replaced the FRRF, a spectral backscattering sensor (WETLabs Eco-bb3), a pCO2 sensor (ProOceanus CO2-Pro), a pH sensor (Satlantic, SeaFET) and a particle imaging system triggered by chlorophyll-a fluorescence (a prototype of McLane Research Laboratories' Imaging FlowCytobot, Sosik Lab, WHOI). Discrete measurements of CDOM absorption measurements were made using an Ultrapath (WPI Inc.) to calibrate the in-line AC-S. Hence the AC-S was also used to provide CDOM absorption in addition to particulate matter properties. The present dataset contains navigation and meteorological data measured during the 2009-2013 campaigns of the Tara Oceans Expedition. Latitude and Longitude were obtained from TSG data. The time stamp of this data set is harmonised with that of other underway data in this collection.