Dataset: Carbon, Nitrogen, biogenic silica, thorium-234, and mass fluxes from upper ocean sediment traps at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain Sustained Observatory (PAP-SO) site in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean during RRS Discovery cruise DY077 in April of 2017

ValidatedFinal no updates expectedDOI: 10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.765835.3Version 3 (2019-06-26)Dataset Type:Cruise Results

Principal Investigator: Margaret L. Estapa (Skidmore College)

Co-Principal Investigator: Kenneth O. Buesseler (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Co-Principal Investigator: Dr Richard Lampitt (University of Southampton)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Amber D. York (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Project: Collaborative Research: Are all traps created equal? A multi-method assessment of the collection and detection of sinking particles in the ocean (Are Traps Equal)

Abstract

Carbon, Nitrogen, biogenic silica, thorium-234, and mass fluxes from upper ocean sediment traps at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain Sustained Observatory (PAP-SO) site in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean during RRS Discovery cruise DY077 in April of 2017.

Cite Dataset

This dataset contains C, N, bSi, Th-234, and mass fluxes from upper ocean sediment traps at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain Sustained Observatory (PAP-SO) site in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean during RRS Discovery cruise DY077.

Related datasets collected during the same cruise:
In-situ pump: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/765850
Water column Th-234 activities: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/765859

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Buesseler, K. O., Pike, S., Maiti, K., Lamborg, C. H., Siegel, D. A., & Trull, T. W. (2009). Thorium-234 as a tracer of spatial, temporal and vertical variability in particle flux in the North Pacific. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 56(7), 1143–1167. doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2009.04.001
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Honjo, S., Francois, R., Manganini, S., Dymond, J., & Collier, R. (2000). Particle fluxes to the interior of the Southern Ocean in the Western Pacific sector along 170°W. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 47(15-16), 3521–3548. doi:10.1016/s0967-0645(00)00077-1
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Estapa, M., Buesseler, K., Lampitt, R. (2019) Carbon, Nitrogen, biogenic silica, thorium-234, and mass fluxes from upper ocean sediment traps at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain Sustained Observatory (PAP-SO) site in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean during RRS Discovery cruise DY077 in April of 2017. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 3) Version Date 2019-06-26 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. doi:10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.765835.3 [access date]

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