Dataset: WireWalker Moorings
Deployment: WW_ESP

WireWalker Moorings

Principal Investigator:

Andrew J Lucas (University of California-San Diego, UCSD-SIO)

Co-Principal Investigator:

Raphael M. Kudela (University of California-Santa Cruz, UCSC)

Contact:

Andrew J Lucas (University of California-San Diego, UCSD-SIO)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

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

Project:

Assessing the Ecophysiological and Biogeochemical Response to Deliberate Nutrient Loading in the Southern California Bight (SoCalPlumeEx2012)

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Version:

21 January 2015

Coordinated Deployments:

WW_M19, WW_WQM2

Version Date:

2015-01-21

Data URL:

https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset-deployment/546105/data

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Description

Physical and optical data from 3 wave-powered profiling moorings (WireWalkers) (.mat files)

Data are collected onboard the profilers. Those data were collected by a CTD with additional channels. The data are provided as vectors (upcast only). The .idx field indicates the start and end of each individual profile. The channels are, as follows:

Upcast only time series:
T = Temperature, degrees C (Seabird 49 CTD or Seabird 52 for ww_esp)
P = Pressure, meters (Seabird 49 CTD or Seabird 52 for ww_esp)
time = Time (matlab datenum format)
C = conductivity (milliSiemens per meter) (Seabird 49 CTD or Seabird 52 for ww_esp)
S = salinity (PSU) (Seabird 49 CTD or Seabird 52 for ww_esp)
F_chla = Chlorophyll fluorescence (Relative Fluorescence Units) (Turner Designs Cyclops 7 chlorophyll fluorometer)

or for ww_esp:
C3_chla: Chlorophyll fluorescence (Relative Fluorescence Units) (Turner Designs C3 fluorometer)
C3_cdom: Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Material (Relative Fluorescence Units) (Turner Designs C3 fluorometer)
C3_turb: Turbidity (Relative Fluorescence Units) (Turner Designs C3 fluorometer)

Methods & Sampling

Dataset acquisition description

Sampling and Analytical Methodology:
These data come from a set of wave-powered profiling moorings. > 8,000 profiles were collected at each mooring. The downcast have been excised due to low data quality. The CTDs were recently calibrated, while the fluorometers are reported as RFU (rather than chlorophyll concentrations) given uncertainties associated with non-photochemical quenching.

ww_m19 and ww_wqm2 CTDs sampled at 16 Hz, while ww_esp CTD sampled at 1Hz. ww_esp also had compromised salinity for much of the deployment due to fouling in the conductivity cell.

The moorings were at the following depths: ww_m19 = 50m, ww_wqm2 = 22m, ww_esp = 22m.

Data Processing Description

Dataset Processing Description

Data Processing:
The data have been processed by removing the downcast (e.g. resulting data is only from profiler upcasts). Individual upcasts are indexed in the .idx field. Otherwise the data are unprocessed.

BCO-DMO Processing Notes
- Generated from original files contributed by Andrew Lucas

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Funding

Award Number	Funding Source
OCE-1251547	NSF Division of Ocean Sciences
OCE-1251573	NSF Division of Ocean Sciences

Instruments

CTD Sea-Bird

Supplied Description:

Seabird 49 CTD or Seabird 52 for ww_esp

Instrument Type

Generic Name: CTD Sea-Bird

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/130/

Generic Description:

Conductivity, Temperature, Depth (CTD) sensor package from SeaBird Electronics, no specific unit identified. This instrument designation is used when specific make and model are not known. See also other SeaBird instruments listed under CTD. More information from Sea-Bird Electronics.

Fluorometer

Supplied Name: Turner Designs Cyclops 7 chlorophyll fluorometer

Supplied Description:

Turner Designs Cyclops 7 chlorophyll fluorometer

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Fluorometer

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/113/

Generic Description:

A fluorometer or fluorimeter is a device used to measure parameters of fluorescence: its intensity and wavelength distribution of emission spectrum after excitation by a certain spectrum of light. The instrument is designed to measure the amount of stimulated electromagnetic radiation produced by pulses of electromagnetic radiation emitted into a water sample or in situ.

Fluorometer

Supplied Name: Turner Designs C3 fluorometer

Supplied Description:

Turner Designs C3 fluorometer

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Fluorometer

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/113/

Generic Description:

Parameters

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
Deployment	Mooring Deployment Identifier	text	deploy
Location	Mooring Location Description	text	site
Start_Date	Start Date of Data Collection	YYYYMMDD	date_start
End_Date	End Date of Data Collection	YYYYMMDD	end_date
Latitude	Latitude Position of Mooring (South is negative)	decimal degrees	lat
Longitude	Longitude Position of Mooring (West is negative)	decimal degrees	lon
Depth	Depth of Mooring	meters	depth
Data_File	Link to Data File (.mat file)	text	dataset_id
T	Temperature degrees C (Seabird 49 CTD or Seabird 52 for ww_esp)	degrees C	temp
P	Pressure meters (Seabird 49 CTD or Seabird 52 for ww_esp)	meters	P
time	Time (matlab datenum format)	matlab datenum format	time
C	conductivity (milliSiemens per meter) (Seabird 49 CTD or Seabird 52 for ww_esp)	milliSiemens per meter	cond
S	salinity (PSU) (Seabird 49 CTD or Seabird 52 for ww_esp)	PSU	sal
F_chla	Chlorophyll fluorescence (Relative Fluorescence Units) (Turner Designs Cyclops 7 chlorophyll fluorometer)	Relative Fluorescence Units	chl_a_fluor
C3_chla	Chlorophyll fluorescence (Relative Fluorescence Units) (Turner Designs C3 fluorometer) (for ww_esp only)	Relative Fluorescence Units	chl_a_fluor
C3_cdom	Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Material (Relative Fluorescence Units) (Turner Designs C3 fluorometer) (for ww_esp only)	Relative Fluorescence Units	CDOM
C3_turb	Turbidity (Relative Fluorescence Units) (Turner Designs C3 fluorometer) (for ww_esp only)	Relative Fluorescence Units	turbidity

Database

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Dataset: WireWalker Moorings
Deployment: WW_ESP

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Dataset: WireWalker Moorings
Deployment: WW_ESP