Dataset: MOCNESS physical parameters

Name: MOCNESS tow physical parameter data from R/V New Horizon cruise NH1008 in Monterey Bay, near MBARI buoy M1 (36.747?N, 122.022?W); 2010 (GATEKEEPERS project)
Published: 2012-09-24
Keywords: oceans

Cite This Dataset

Project:

Zooplankton feeding at the base of the particle maximum: Gatekeepers of the Vertical Flux? (GATEKEEPERS)

Principal Investigator:

David M. Checkley (University of California-San Diego Scripps, UCSD-SIO)

Co-Principal Investigator:

Michael Dagg (Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, LUMCON)

George A. Jackson (Texas A&M University, TAMU)

Contact:

David M. Checkley (University of California-San Diego Scripps, UCSD-SIO)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

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

Version:

24 September 2012

Version Date:

2012-09-24

Restricted:

Validated:

Current State:

Final no updates expected

MOCNESS tow physical parameter data from R/V New Horizon cruise NH1008 in Monterey Bay, near MBARI buoy M1 (36.747?N, 122.022?W); 2010 (GATEKEEPERS project)

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Description

MOCNESS - Data
time pres echo temp theta sal sigma angle flow hzvel
vtvel vol net fluor ptran oxycurrent oxytemp oxygen
lat lon

Methods & Sampling

(In Progress)

Data Processing Description

BCO-DMO Processing/Edits
- Generated from MOCNESS data (MN_XX.txt files) contributed by Jessica Forrest-Baldini
- Awk routine "NewHorizon_MN_2_BCODMO.awk" generated to convert MN_XX.txt files to bco-dmo formatted files
- Spaces converted to tabs
- BCO-DMO compatible parameter header generated

Data Files

File
MOCNESS_Data.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 2.17 MB) MD5:adb5e5c911d98724d94848fb646622ac Primary data file for dataset ID 3731

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-0927863
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-0928139
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-0928425

Deployments

Deployment	Synonyms	Start Date	Platform	Investigator
NH1008	GATEKEEPERS	2010-07-08	R/V New Horizon	David M. Checkley (Chief Scientist)	data info

Instruments

MOCNESS

Supplied Description:

Instrument Type

Generic Name: MOCNESS

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L22/current/NETT0097/

Generic Description:

The Multiple Opening/Closing Net and Environmental Sensing System or MOCNESS is a family of net systems based on the Tucker Trawl principle. There are currently 8 different sizes of MOCNESS in existence which are designed for capture of different size ranges of zooplankton and micro-nekton Each system is designated according to the size of the net mouth opening and in two cases, the number of nets it carries. The original MOCNESS (Wiebe et al, 1976) was a redesigned and improved version of a system described by Frost and McCrone (1974).(from MOCNESS manual) This designation is used when the specific type of MOCNESS (number and size of nets) was not specified by the contributing investigator.

Parameters

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

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
MN_Tow	MOCNESS Tow Number	Dimensionless	tow
Event	Event Number	Dimensionless	event
Station	Station Number/Id	Dimensionless	station
ISO_DateTime_Local_Deployed	Deployment Date/Time (PDT) ISO formatted	YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.xx[+/-TZ]	ISO_DateTime_Local
Date_Deployed	Deployment Date (PDT)	YYYYMMDD	date_start
Time_Deployed	Deployment Time (PDT)	HHMMSS	time_start
Latitude_Deployed	Deployment Latitude (South is negative)	decimal degrees	lat_start
Longitude_Deployed	Deployment Longitude (West is negative)	decimal degrees	lon_start
ISO_DateTime_Local_Recovered	Recovery Date/Time (PDT) ISO formatted	YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.xx[+/-TZ]	ISO_DateTime_Local
Date_Recovered	Recovery Date (PDT)	YYYYMMDD	date_end
Time_Recovered	Recovery Time (PDT)	HHMMSS	time_end
Latitude_Recovered	Recovery Latitude (South is negative)	decimal degrees	lat_end
Longitude_Recovered	Recovery Longitude (West is negative)	decimal degrees	lon_end
time	Julian day and hours/minutes expressed as decimal Note: GMT day number is off by one day (GMT Day Reported > GMT Day actual by one day)	decimal days	time
pres	pressure decibars = depth (m)	decibars	press
echo	echo	kHz	no_bcodmo_term
temp	temperature	Degrees celsius	temp
theta	Theta - potential temperature	nd	potemp
sal	salinity	PSU	sal
sigma	sigma t (density)	kg/m3	density
angle	angle of net frame relative to vertical	degrees	tow_angle
flow	flow	nd	flow
hzvel	horizontal velocity	meters/min(?/)	hzvel
vtvel	verticle velocity	meters/min(??)	vtvel
vol	volume filtered	m3	vol_filt
net	sequential MOCNESS net number	dimensionless	net
fluor	fluorescence	volts	fluor
ptran	transmissometer(??)	nd	trans
oxycurrent	oxygen sensor current	nd	O2_v
oxytemp	oxygen sensor temperature	nd	no_bcodmo_term
oxygen	dissolved oxygen	mL/L	no_bcodmo_term
lat	Data Latitude (South is negative)	decimal degrees	lat
lon	Data Longitude (West is negative)	decimal degrees	lon

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Dataset: MOCNESS physical parameters