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Parameter: Sample_Date

Dataset: 
Pseudo-nitzschia counts, nutrients and more
Parameter: 
date
Master parameters information
Short Name:
 date
Short Description:
 date
Official Name:
 date
No Data Value:
Description:
 

date; generally reported in GMT as YYYYMMDD (year; month; day); also as MMDD (month; day); EqPac dates are local Hawaii time. ISO_Date format is YYYY-MM-DD (http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/iso8601.htm)

Dataset-parameters information
Supplied Name: 
Sample_Date
Supplied Units: 
unitless
Datatype: 
Date
Format: 
%Y-%m-%d'
Conversion Necessary: 
no
Conversion Utility: 
No Data Value: 
nd
Description: 
The local date associated with Rhode Island USA that the water sample was collected; all samples have a date. Samples include some from the Long Term Plankton Time Series during the precautionary shellfish harvest closure due to the neurotoxin domoic acid produced by the diatom Pseudo-nitzschia spp. in the fall of 2016 and a true closure in the winter and spring of 2017 due to domoic acid. Regular weekly sampling for this project started on 2017-09-18 at the LTPTS and goes until 2019-11-25 for the associated manuscript. Formatted as YYYY-MM-DD.