Table of Contents

• Dataset Description
  • Methods & Sampling
  • Data Processing Description
• Parameters
• Instruments
• Deployments
• Project Information
• Program Information
• Funding

Total organic carbon profile data

See Platform deployments for cruise specific documentation

   Methods reported in:
 
   Peltzer, Edward T. (1993).  Shipboard determination of total organic carbon by
     a high temperature combustion/direct injection technique.  U.S. Joint Global
     Ocean Flux Study - Equatorial Pacific Protocols, 1993, section 21A.
 
   The EqPac methods were followed explicity on the Arabian Sea Process cruises
     with two exceptions:
 
        1. For Process cruises 1, 2 and 4, the WHOI custom built HTC/DI-TOC
           analyzer was used.  For Process cruises 6 and 7, the BBSR custom
           built HTC/DI-TOC analyzer was used.
 
        2. Low carbon water (LCW) prepared using a commercial Milli-Q UV/TOC (R)
           system was used to measure the instrument blank as opposed to the
           carbon free distilled water (CFDW) that was used in EqPac.  For all
           legs, the LCW was assigned a background TOC value of 0 uMC.
 

The U.S. Arabian Sea Expedition which began in September 1994 and ended in January 1996, had three major components: a U.S. JGOFS Process Study, supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF); Forced Upper Ocean Dynamics, an Office of Naval Research (ONR) initiative; and shipboard and aircraft measurements supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The Expedition consisted of 17 cruises aboard the R/V Thomas Thompson, year-long moored deployments of five instrumented surface buoys and five sediment-trap arrays, aircraft overflights and satellite observations. Of the seventeen ship cruises, six were allocated to repeat process survey cruises, four to SeaSoar mapping cruises, six to mooring and benthic work, and a single calibration cruise which was essentially conducted in transit to the Arabian Sea.

The United States Joint Global Ocean Flux Study was a national component of international JGOFS and an integral part of global climate change research.

The U.S. launched the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) in the late 1980s to study the ocean carbon cycle. An ambitious goal was set to understand the controls on the concentrations and fluxes of carbon and associated nutrients in the ocean. A new field of ocean biogeochemistry emerged with an emphasis on quality measurements of carbon system parameters and interdisciplinary field studies of the biological, chemical and physical process which control the ocean carbon cycle. As we studied ocean biogeochemistry, we learned that our simple views of carbon uptake and transport were severely limited, and a new "wave" of ocean science was born. U.S. JGOFS has been supported primarily by the U.S. National Science Foundation in collaboration with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Department of Energy and the Office of Naval Research. U.S. JGOFS, ended in 2005 with the conclusion of the Synthesis and Modeling Project (SMP).