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NERC Biogeochemical Ocean Flux Study (BOFS) data in the Southern Ocean (1992)

Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR

The aim of the Sterna 92 project was to measure the magnitude and variability of carbon and nitrogen fluxes during early summer in the Southern Ocean, with particular emphasis on rates and processes in the marginal ice zone.

Description

Data were collected at sites in the Bellingshausen Sea as part of a 2-ship Eulerian experiment; RRS James Clark Ross held her geographic position while the ice retreated past her whilst RRS Discovery undertook more extensive survey work in the ice-free areas to the north.

The data are split into: (i) underway sampling (SeaSoar, UOR, lightfish, ADCP, meteorology and parameters measured from the ship's pumped seawater supply) of which there are 121179 records at 1 minute intervals and (ii) discrete sampling (CTD and XBT casts, bottle stations, net hauls, productivity incubations) of which there are over 1000 deployments. Underway data (20 Mbytes) are stored as 1 minute interval time series for each cruise with all parameters merged on date/time.

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The data are fully quality controlled; checks were made for instrument malfunction, fouling, constancy, spikes, spurious values, calibration errors, baseline and salt-water corrections. The discrete data (40 Mbytes) are stored in a relational database (Oracle RDBMS), chiefly as vertical profiles and are uniquely identified by a combination of deployment number and depth. The data were collected and supplied by UK participants in JGOFS.

BODC are responsible for calibrating, processing, quality controlling and documenting the data and assembling the final data set. AVAILABILITY: Presently restricted to BOFS participants. Contact BODC for details.

More information can be found on the BODC WWW page: "bodc.ac.uk/" [This information was derived from the BODC WWW pages.]

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Provenance · 1 source records, 43 field assertions
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concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/oceans/ocean-temperature/water-temperaturesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
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