Methodology: please see Buesseler at al. 2001 and Pike et al. 2005
Buesseler, K. O., C. Benitez-Nelson, Rutgers van der Loeff, M., Andrews,
J., Ball, L., Crossin, G., and M. Charette (2001). An intercomparison of
small- and large-volume techniques for thorium-234 in seawater. Marine Chemistry, 74, 15-28. (PDF)
Pike, S.M., K.O. Buesseler, J. Andrews and N. Savoye (2005). Quantification
of 234Th recovery in small volume sea water samples by inductively coupled
plasma mass spectrometry. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 263(2): 355-360. (PDF)
Change history: YYMMDD
060928: contributed by Ken Buesseler
061003: added to OCB database; Cyndy Chandler (cchandler@whoi.edu), OCB CDMO
061122: add metadata from event log; cchandler@whoi.edu
061206: original data included a column called seafloor; removed
071129: add pigment data
080103: add bot_QC per PI request.
080707: remove bad NO3_NO2 values per PI request; correct misaligned data
columns for P>1000
081202: remove suspect deepwater Thorium data from casts 29 (B1,2,3) and
cast 90 (bottles 1,2,3,4,5)
PI note: a negative bot_QC quality flag indicates that at least the nitrite plus nitrate
data are suspect, and possibly other data from that bottle as well; 0 indicates good.
In July 2008 after reviewing data, PI requested removal of suspect DIN values;
remaining data values from these suspect bottle samples were not removed.
cast bot bot_QC press NO2_NO3
17 20 -1 59.324 2.5
17 16 -1 124.259 1.6
19 4 -1 304.730 4.5
19 1 -1 1011.760 32.2
27 10 -1 73.481 1.7
29 3 -1 3045.735 18.5
29 2 -1 3047.211 22.1
29 1 -1 3045.820 18.9
46 2 -1 177.491 8.4
46 1 -1 296.281 32.1