| Contributors | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Takahashi, Taro | Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) | Principal Investigator |
| Chandler, Cynthia L. | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI BCO-DMO) | BCO-DMO Data Manager |
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pCO2_surface.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 10.55 MB) MD5:280842fdee62893a61f21aefeeeeb55c Primary data file for dataset ID 2728 |
| Parameter | Description | Units |
| cruise_id | cruise designation | |
| cruise_alias | commonly used cruise name | |
| date_begin | date sampling started (YYYYMMDD) | |
| lat | latitude, negative=south | decimal degrees |
| lon | longitude, negative=west | decimal degrees |
| year | 4 digit year | |
| yrday | day of year, including time of the day | decimal days |
| temp | sea surface temperature | degrees Celsius |
| sal | sea surface salinity | PSU |
| press_bar | pressure of equilibration | millibars |
| pCO2_temp | temperature at which pCO2 was measured | degrees Celsius |
| vco2_sw | mole volume of CO2 in dry air | parts per million |
| pco2_meas | measured partial pressure of CO2 in seawater | microatmospheres |
| pco2_theta | partial pressure of CO2 in seawater corrected to the sea surface temperature using 4.23 percent per degree Celsius | microatmospheres |
| Website | |
| Platform | RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer |
| Report | |
| Start Date | 1996-08-30 |
| End Date | 1996-09-24 |
| Description | Site Survey Cruise Methods & Sampling PI: Taro Takahashi of: Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory dataset: pCO2 from shipboard continuous surface system project/cruise: AESOPS/NBP-96-4 ship: R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer Methodology/References Same document in WORD format Notes: 1. NBP94-6, NBP96-6 and NBP97-9 were not JGOFS cruises but are included here by the P.I. as relevant data. 2. All cruises have been processed by averaging the data to approximately 3.5 minute intervals. 3. Data from JGOFS Southern Ocean Process 1 (NBP96-4A) is not available. The shipboard pCO2 system was not properly started and no data were recorded. |
| Website | |
| Platform | RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer |
| Report | |
| Start Date | 1996-11-11 |
| End Date | 1996-12-01 |
| Description | Moorings Deployment Methods & Sampling PI: Taro Takahashi of: Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory dataset: pCO2 from shipboard continuous surface system project/cruise: AESOPS/NBP-96-5 ship: R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer Methodology/References Same document in WORD format Notes: 1. NBP94-6, NBP96-6 and NBP97-9 were not JGOFS cruises but are included here by the P.I. as relevant data. 2. All cruises have been processed by averaging the data to approximately 3.5 minute intervals. 3. Data from JGOFS Southern Ocean Process 1 (NBP96-4A) is not available. The shipboard pCO2 system was not properly started and no data were recorded. |
| Website | |
| Platform | RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer |
| Report | |
| Start Date | 1997-01-13 |
| End Date | 1997-02-11 |
| Description | Ross Sea Process Study 2 Methods & Sampling PI: Taro Takahashi of: Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory dataset: pCO2 from shipboard continuous surface system project/cruise: AESOPS/NBP-97-1 ship: R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer Methodology/References Same document in WORD format Notes: 1. NBP94-6, NBP96-6 and NBP97-9 were not JGOFS cruises but are included here by the P.I. as relevant data. 2. All cruises have been processed by averaging the data to approximately 3.5 minute intervals. 3. Data from JGOFS Southern Ocean Process 1 (NBP96-4A) is not available. The shipboard pCO2 system was not properly started and no data were recorded. |
| Website | |
| Platform | RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer |
| Report | |
| Start Date | 1997-04-04 |
| End Date | 1997-05-11 |
| Description | Ross Sea Process Study 3 Methods & Sampling PI: Taro Takahashi of: Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory dataset: pCO2 from shipboard continuous surface system project/cruise: AESOPS/NBP-97-3 ship: R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer Methodology/References Same document in WORD format Notes: 1. NBP94-6, NBP96-6 and NBP97-9 were not JGOFS cruises but are included here by the P.I. as relevant data. 2. All cruises have been processed by averaging the data to approximately 3.5 minute intervals. 3. Data from JGOFS Southern Ocean Process 1 (NBP96-4A) is not available. The shipboard pCO2 system was not properly started and no data were recorded. |
| Website | |
| Platform | RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer |
| Report | |
| Start Date | 1997-11-05 |
| End Date | 1997-12-13 |
| Description | Ross Sea Process Study 4
SeaWiFS transmits images to U.S. JGOFS scientists aboard the Palmer, for first time on November 23, 1997. Methods & Sampling PI: Taro Takahashi of: Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory dataset: pCO2 from shipboard continuous surface system project/cruise: AESOPS/NBP-97-8 ship: R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer Methodology/References Same document in WORD format Notes: 1. NBP94-6, NBP96-6 and NBP97-9 were not JGOFS cruises but are included here by the P.I. as relevant data. 2. All cruises have been processed by averaging the data to approximately 3.5 minute intervals. 3. Data from JGOFS Southern Ocean Process 1 (NBP96-4A) is not available. The shipboard pCO2 system was not properly started and no data were recorded. |
| Website | |
| Platform | RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer |
| Report | |
| Start Date | 1998-02-25 |
| End Date | 1998-04-03 |
| Description | Benthic Process and Moorings Recovery Methods & Sampling PI: Taro Takahashi of: Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory dataset: pCO2 from shipboard continuous surface system project/cruise: AESOPS/NBP-98-2 ship: R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer Methodology/References Same document in WORD format Notes: 1. NBP94-6, NBP96-6 and NBP97-9 were not JGOFS cruises but are included here by the P.I. as relevant data. 2. All cruises have been processed by averaging the data to approximately 3.5 minute intervals. 3. Data from JGOFS Southern Ocean Process 1 (NBP96-4A) is not available. The shipboard pCO2 system was not properly started and no data were recorded. |
| Website | |
| Platform | R/V Roger Revelle |
| Report | |
| Start Date | 1998-01-08 |
| End Date | 1998-02-08 |
| Description | Polar Front Survey II. Additional information about this cruise can be found at https://usjgofs.whoi.edu/aesops/aboutrr8.html Methods & Sampling PI: Taro Takahashi of: Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory dataset: pCO2 from shipboard continuous surface system project/cruise: AESOPS/KIWI8 ship: R/V Roger Revelle Methodology/References Same document in WORD format Notes: 1. NBP94-6, NBP96-6 and NBP97-9 were not JGOFS cruises but are included here by the P.I. as relevant data. 2. All cruises have been processed by averaging the data to approximately 3.5 minute intervals. 3. Data from JGOFS Southern Ocean Process 1 (NBP96-4A) is not available. The shipboard pCO2 system was not properly started and no data were recorded. |
| Website | |
| Platform | R/V Roger Revelle |
| Report | |
| Start Date | 1998-02-13 |
| End Date | 1998-03-19 |
| Description | Polar Front Process II. Additional information about this cruise can be found at https://usjgofs.whoi.edu/aesops/aboutrr9.html Methods & Sampling PI: Taro Takahashi of: Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory dataset: pCO2 from shipboard continuous surface system project/cruise: AESOPS/KIWI9 ship: R/V Roger Revelle Methodology/References Same document in WORD format Notes: 1. NBP94-6, NBP96-6 and NBP97-9 were not JGOFS cruises but are included here by the P.I. as relevant data. 2. All cruises have been processed by averaging the data to approximately 3.5 minute intervals. 3. Data from JGOFS Southern Ocean Process 1 (NBP96-4A) is not available. The shipboard pCO2 system was not properly started and no data were recorded. |
| Website | |
| Platform | RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer |
| Report | |
| Start Date | 1994-11-03 |
| End Date | 1994-12-19 |
| Description | Note that the NBP-94-6 cruise was not a U.S. JGOFS cruise but is included here by the P.I. as having collected relevant data. The cruise was associated with the Collaborative Research on Bloom Dynamics and Food Web Structure in the Ross Sea research initiative funded by NSF OPP award OPP93-17587.
The cruise report is provided by the LDEO MGDS data repository. Methods & Sampling PI: Taro Takahashi of: Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory dataset: pCO2 from shipboard continuous surface system project/cruise: AESOPS/NBP-94-6 ship: Nathaniel B. Palmer Methodology/References Same document in WORD format Notes: 1. NBP94-6, NBP96-6 and NBP97-9 were not JGOFS cruises but are included here by the P.I. as relevant data. 2. All cruises have been processed by averaging the data to approximately 3.5 minute intervals. 3. Data from JGOFS Southern Ocean Process 1 (NBP96-4A) is not available. The shipboard pCO2 system was not properly started and no data were recorded. |
| Website | |
| Platform | RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer |
| Report | |
| Start Date | 1996-12-11 |
| End Date | 1997-01-08 |
| Description | Note that the NBP-96-6 cruise was not a U.S. JGOFS cruise but is
included here by the P.I. as having collected relevant data. The cruise was associated with the ROAVERRS program (Research on Ocean-Atmosphere Variability and Ecosystem Response in the Ross Sea) and funding was provided by NSF OPP award OPP94-19605.
The cruise report is provided by the LDEO MGDS data repository. Methods & Sampling PI: Taro Takahashi of: Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory dataset: pCO2 from shipboard continuous surface system project/cruise: AESOPS/NBP-96-6 ship: R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer Methodology/References Same document in WORD format Notes: 1. NBP94-6, NBP96-6 and NBP97-9 were not JGOFS cruises but are included here by the P.I. as relevant data. 2. All cruises have been processed by averaging the data to approximately 3.5 minute intervals. 3. Data from JGOFS Southern Ocean Process 1 (NBP96-4A) is not available. The shipboard pCO2 system was not properly started and no data were recorded. |
| Website | |
| Platform | RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer |
| Report | |
| Start Date | 1997-12-20 |
| End Date | 1998-01-10 |
| Description | Note that the NBP-97-9 cruise was not a U.S. JGOFS cruise but is
included here by the P.I. as having collected relevant data. The cruise was associated with the ROAVERRS program (Research on Ocean-Atmosphere Variability and Ecosystem Response in the Ross Sea) and funding was provided by NSF OPP award OPP98-96356.
The cruise report is provided by the LDEO MGDS data repository.
OPP94-19605 Methods & Sampling PI: Taro Takahashi of: Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory dataset: pCO2 from shipboard continuous surface system project/cruise: AESOPS/NBP-97-3 ship: R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer Methodology/References Same document in WORD format Notes: 1. NBP94-6, NBP96-6 and NBP97-9 were not JGOFS cruises but are included here by the P.I. as relevant data. 2. All cruises have been processed by averaging the data to approximately 3.5 minute intervals. 3. Data from JGOFS Southern Ocean Process 1 (NBP96-4A) is not available. The shipboard pCO2 system was not properly started and no data were recorded. |
The U.S. Southern Ocean JGOFS program, called Antarctic Environment and Southern Ocean Process Study (AESOPS), began in August 1996 and continued through March 1998. The U.S. JGOFS AESOPS program focused on two regions in the Southern Ocean: an east/west section of the Ross-Sea continental shelf along 76.5°S, and a second north/south section of the Southern Ocean spanning the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) at ~170°W (identified as the Polar Front). The science program, coordinated by Antarctic Support Associates (ASA), comprised eleven cruises using the R.V.I.B Nathaniel B. Palmer and R/V Roger Revelle as observational platforms and for deployment and recovery of instrumented moorings and sediment-trap arrays. The Ross-Sea region was occupied on six occasions and the Polar Front five times. Mapping data were obtained from SeaSoar, ADCP, and bathymetric systems. Satellite coverage was provided by the NASA SeaWiFS and the NOAA/NASA Pathfinder programs.
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).