Dataset: biomass

Name: Biomass by organism size fraction and depth interval from cruises TT007, TT008, TT011, TT012 in the Equatorial Pacific in 1992 during the U.S. JGOFS Equatorial Pacific (EqPac) project
Published: 1995-03-06
Keywords: oceans

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Cite This Dataset

Project:

U.S. JGOFS Equatorial Pacific (EqPac)

Program:

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

Principal Investigator:

Michael R. Roman (University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, UMCES/HPL)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

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

Version:

March 6, 1995

Version Date:

1995-03-06

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Biomass by organism size fraction and depth interval from cruises TT007, TT008, TT011, TT012 in the Equatorial Pacific in 1992 during the U.S. JGOFS Equatorial Pacific (EqPac) project

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Description

Biomass by Organism Size Fraction and Depth Interval

Methods & Sampling

See Platform deployments for cruise specific documentation

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Funding Sources

None available yet

Deployments

Deployment	Synonyms	Start Date	Platform	Investigator
TT007	EqPac Spring Survey	1992-01-30	R/V Thomas G. Thompson	James W. Murray (Chief Scientist)	data info
TT008	EqPac Spring Time Series	1992-03-19	R/V Thomas G. Thompson	Michael R. Roman (Chief Scientist)	data info
TT011	EqPac Fall Survey	1992-08-05	R/V Thomas G. Thompson	Richard Barber (Chief Scientist)	data info
TT012	EqPac Fall Time Series	1992-09-24	R/V Thomas G. Thompson	Dr Michael Bacon (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
moc	mocness tow number, from event log		no_bcodmo_term
event	event number, from event log		event
range	depth interval sampled	meters	range
depth_mid	mid point of range	meters	depth_mid
bio1000	biomass, organisms greater then 1000um	mgC/m^3	no_bcodmo_term
bio500_1000	biomass, organisms in size fraction 500-1000 um	mgC/m^3	no_bcodmo_term
bio200_500	biomass, organisms in size fraction 200-500 um	mgC/m^3	no_bcodmo_term
bio64_200	biomass, organisms in size fraction 64-200 um	mgC/m^3	no_bcodmo_term
biotot	biomass, total all fractions	mgC/m^3	no_bcodmo_term

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Dataset: biomass