Dataset: 10mEPOCS5

Name: NOAA EPOCS mooring PR05 Multi-Variate Moored Systems data at 10m from the Equatorial Pacific in 1992 during the U.S. JGOFS Equatorial Pacific (EqPac) project
Published: 1995-03-20
Keywords: oceans

Cite This Dataset

Project:

U.S. JGOFS Equatorial Pacific (EqPac)

Program:

U.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (U.S. JGOFS)

Principal Investigator:

Dr Tom Dickey (University of California-Santa Barbara, UCSB)

Co-Principal Investigator:

Dr Dave Foley (University of California-Santa Barbara, UCSB)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Cynthia L. Chandler (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version:

March 20, 1995

Version Date:

1995-03-20

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

NOAA EPOCS mooring PR05 Multi-Variate Moored Systems data at 10m from the Equatorial Pacific in 1992 during the U.S. JGOFS Equatorial Pacific (EqPac) project

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Description

NOAA EPOCS mooring PR05; Multi-Variate Moored Systems data at 10m

Methods & Sampling

   PI:              Thomas Dickey and Dave Foley
   of:              University of California, Santa Barbara
   dataset:         Multi-Variate Moored Systems data from Instrument at 10m
   dates:           Nov. 9, 1991 to Apr 29, 1992
   location:        equator at 140W
   project/cruise:  EqPac

These data were taken as part of the EPOCS mooring PR05. The data
included with this set are those specific to the Multi-Variate Moored
Systems (MVMS) deployed by Tom Dickey (USC). In order to provide the
community with manageable files, the original data (3.75 minute
sampling period) have been averaged into 1 hour bins. If higher time
resolution is required, the necessary arrangements can be made.

Complimentary data from the other instruments on the mooring are also available through Mike McPhaden's group (or through me, with their permission) at NOAA/PMEL. These data include: ADCP (8m bins), Various temperature and mechanical current meters, and surface buoy meteorological data (winds, humidity, solar insolation, SST, air T); temperature post calibration (PMEL); correction for true north (+9deg).

Dave Foley

USC Ocean Physics

Data Files

File
10mEPOCS5.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 235.39 KB) MD5:9719eee0470e7d2ad1e28a83bfca39e8 Primary data file for dataset ID 2610

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	unknown EqPac NOAA

Deployments

Deployment	Synonyms	Start Date	Platform	Investigator
EqPac-EPOCS-5	EPOCS mooring PR05	1991-11-09	JGOFS NOAA EPOCS		data info

Instruments

Multi-Variate Moored System

Supplied Name: Multi-Variate Moored Systems

Supplied Description:

The mooring data are collected with Multi-Variate Moored Systems (MVMS) deployed by Tom Dickey (USC).

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Multi-Variate Moored System

Acronym: Multi-Variate Mooring

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/102/

Generic Description:

The Multi-Variate Moored Systems deployed during the US JGOFS EqPac Process Study was a package of integrated meteorological instruments. The Multi-Variate Moored System included instruments for measuring bio-optical and physical variables including water temperature, current direction and velocity, PAR, Lu683 (upwelling radiance, chlorophyll a fluorescence), and salinity. Instrumentation included: (1) a vector measuring current meter (VMCM; EG&G; Weller and Davis, 1980); (2) a fluorometer measuring strobe-stimulated fluorescence (Sea Tech; Bartz et al., 1988); (3) a transmissometer measuring beam transmission at 660 nm (Sea Tech; Bartz et al., 1978); (4) a sensor measuring scalar irradiance or photosynthetic available radiation, PAR, (E-PAR) in the visible waveband (400 < 700 nm, in vacua; Biospherical Instruments, QSP-200; Booth, 1976); (5) a sensor for measuring downwelled vector irradiance at 488 nm (Ed(488); Biospherical Instruments, QCP-200); (6) a sensor for measuring upwelled radiance at 683 nm (Lu683); Biospherical Instruments MRP-200); (7) a dissolved oxygen sensor (ENDECO, Inc.) and thermistors for measuring temperature. (Dickey et al. 1993 and Foley et al. 1997).

References:
Bartz, R., Zaneveld, J. R.V. and Pak, H. (1978) A transmissometer for profiling and moored observations in water. SPIE, Ocean Optics V, 160, 102-107.

Booth, C. R. (1976) The design and evaluation of a measurement system for photosynthetically active quantum scalar irradiance. Limnology and Oceanography, 19, 326-335.

Dickey, TD, Granata, T., Marra, J., Langdon, G, Wiggert, J., Chai-Jochner, Z., Hamilton, M., Vazquez, J.,. Stramska, M., Bidigare, R., Siegel, D. 1993. Seasonal Variability of Bio-Optical and Physical Properties in the Sargasso Sea, J. Geophys. Res., 98(C1), 865-898, doi:10.1029/92JC01830.

Foley, D.G., T.D. Dickey, M.J. McPhaden, R.R. Bidigare, M.R. Lewis, R.T. Barber, S.T. Lindley, C. Garside, D.V. Manov and J.D. McNeil (1997). Longwaves and Primary Productivity Variations in the Equatorial Pacific at 0 degrees, 140 degrees W. Deep Sea Research II, 44(9-10): 1801-1826.

Weller, R. A. and Davis, R. E. (1980) A vector measuring current meter. Deep-Sea Research, 27A, 565-582.

Parameters

Date and time formats are described in python strftime() syntax.

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
rec	record number		no_bcodmo_term
day_decimal	day in local time (start time 313.0240, 1991).	decimal day	no_bcodmo_term
temp	temperature	degrees Centigrade	temp
U	U component of currents	cm/sec	u
V	V component of currents	cm/sec	v
PAR	photosythetically available radiation	uEin/m^2/sec	PAR
Lu_683	upwelled spectral radiance at wave length 683nm	uEin/m^2/sec/micron/sr	no_bcodmo_term
sal	salinity	PSU (practical salinity units)	sal

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