Dataset: CTD - R/V Gaia cruises

Name: CTD data collected during R/V Gaia cruises in nearshore Southern California between July 20th and October 4th, 2016
Published: 2017-04-06
Keywords: oceans

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Spatial Extent: N:32.811283 E:-117.269083 S:32.807017 W:-117.2807

Temporal Extent: 2016-07-20 - 2016-10-04

Project:

RAPID: Nearshore settlement and hydrodynamics in Southern California during El Nino, and the transition to normal ocean conditions: boom and bust? (RAPID_Settlement_Hydrodynamics)

Principal Investigator:

Nathalie Reyns (University of San Diego, USD)

Co-Principal Investigator:

Steven J. Lentz (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI)

Jesus Pineda (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI)

Contact:

Nathalie Reyns (University of San Diego, USD)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Amber D. York (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version Date:

2017-04-06

Restricted:

Yes

Release Date:

2020-01-01

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

CTD data collected during R/V Gaia cruises in nearshore Southern California between July 20th and October 4th, 2016

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Description

These CTD data include depth, temperature, salinity taken during R/V Gaia cruises in the nearshore Southern California region between July 20th to October 4th of 2016.

Methods & Sampling

Repeated CTD casts were taken from ~5m depth while anchored.

Data Processing Description

No processing has been completed, these are raw CTD data.

BCO-DMO data manager processing notes:

* Split date time field into date, and time, and added ISO 8601 formatted timestamp.
* rounded depth, temp, and salinity to three decimal places.

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1630459
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1630474

Deployments

None available yet

Instruments

CTD - profiler

Supplied Name: SonTek CastAway

Supplied Description:

Instrument Type

Generic Name: CTD - profiler

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/130/

Generic Description:

The Conductivity, Temperature, Depth (CTD) unit is an integrated instrument package designed to measure the conductivity, temperature, and pressure (depth) of the water column. The instrument is lowered via cable through the water column. It permits scientists to observe the physical properties in real-time via a conducting cable, which is typically connected to a CTD to a deck unit and computer on a ship. The CTD is often configured with additional optional sensors including fluorometers, transmissometers and/or radiometers. It is often combined with a Rosette of water sampling bottles (e.g. Niskin, GO-FLO) for collecting discrete water samples during the cast.

This term applies to profiling CTDs. For fixed CTDs, see https://www.bco-dmo.org/instrument/869934.

Parameters

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

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
ISO_DateTime_UTC	ISO timestamp based on the ISO 8601:2004(E) standard in format YYYY-mm-ddTHH:MMZ (UTC)	unitless	ISO_DateTime_UTC
Date	Date (GMT) in format yyyy-mm-dd	unitless	date
Time	Time (GMT) in format HH:MM	unitless	time
Depth	Depth	meters	depth
Temperature	Temperature	degrees Celsius	temp
Salinity	Salinity	practical salinity units (PSU)	sal
filename	original Castaway CTD filename	unitless	file_name

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Dataset: CTD - R/V Gaia cruises