Dataset: Light - levels
Deployment: 61TG_3052

Measured surface light levels

Principal Investigator:

Mr Mark Gall (New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, NIWA)

Co-Principal Investigator:

Philip W. Boyd (New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, NIWA)

Contact:

Doug Mackie (University of Otago)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Stephen R. Gegg (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI)

Project:

Southern Ocean Iron Release Experiment (SOIREE)

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Version:

22August2008

Deployment Synonyms:

SOIREE

Version Date:

2008-08-22

Data URL:

https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset-deployment/451456/data

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Description

SOIREE Measured surface light levels

Light data were sampled at 5 min intervals during the course of SOIREE.

Plot of Surface Light (PAR) during SOIREE

Methods & Sampling

Dataset acquisition description

See SOIREE Preliminary Voyage Report

For more information refer to Gall et al (2001)
"Phytoplankton processes (Part 2): Rates of primary
production and factors controlling algal growth during the

Southern Ocean Iron RElease Experiment (SOIREE)".

Data Processing Description

Dataset Processing Description

See SOIREE Preliminary Voyage Report

BCO-DMO Processing Notes

Generated from original file Light_Summary.xls Tab: SurfaceLightData
provided on the
Deep-Sea Research II 48 (2001) accompanying CD-Rom

BCO-DMO Edits

- parameter names modified to conform to BCO-DMO convention

- date reformatted to YYYYMMDD

- time reformatted to HHMM

- Data plot in original spreadsheet removed

More information about this dataset deployment

Instruments

None available yet

Parameters

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
Date_Mean	Mean Date	YYMMDD	no_bcodmo_term
TIME_Calcs	Time of Day	decimal hours	no_bcodmo_term
Date_Time_Mean	Date/Time of Mean Light (NZST)	DD-Mon-YY	no_bcodmo_term
Date_Time_High	Date/Time of High Light (NZST)	M/DD/YYYY HH:MM	no_bcodmo_term
Date_Time_Low	Date/Time of Low Light (NZST)	M/DD/YYYY HH:MM	no_bcodmo_term
Mean_Value	Mean Light Level Value	uM/m^2/sec	no_bcodmo_term
High_Value	High Light Level Value	uM/m^2/sec	no_bcodmo_term
Low_Value	Low Light Level Value	uM/m^2/sec	no_bcodmo_term
SIS_light_levels_Mean_Total	Mean Total SIS Light Level	uM/m^2/sec	no_bcodmo_term

Database

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Dataset: Light - levels
Deployment: 61TG_3052

Dataset acquisition description

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Dataset: Light - levels
Deployment: 61TG_3052