Dataset: alongtrack
Deployment: RHB0603

Alongtrack position data from CMarZ cruises

Chief Scientist:

Peter H. Wiebe (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Ms Dicky Allison (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI)

Project:

Census of Marine Zooplankton-2004-2010 (CMarZ_2004-2010)

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Version Date:

2010-11-19

Data URL:

https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset-deployment/450429/data

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Description

The alongtrack data from the NOAA ship Ronald H. Brown were recorded by the shipboard data acquisition system (SCS).

The alongtrack data are in four objects: position, wind, meteorology, bathymetry. The first several fields in each object are the same: time, location and course and speed. In the future all these objects will be combined into one object and the first 6 or 8 fields will not be repeated.

Any questions should be directed to the CMarZ Data Management Office.

Methods & Sampling

Dataset acquisition description

The alongtrack data from the NOAA ship Ronald H. Brown were recorded by the shipboard data acquisition system (SCS).

Deployment-specific acquisition description

The alongtrack data from the NOAA ship Ronald H. Brown were recorded by the shipboard data acquisition system (SCS).

Data Processing Description

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Funding

Award Number	Funding Source
unknown CMarZ_2004-2010 NOAA OEP	NOAA Ocean Exploration

Instruments

Thermosalinograph

Supplied Description:

Thermosalinograph used to obtain a continuous record of sea surface temperature and salinity.

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Thermosalinograph

Acronym: TSG

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/133/

Generic Description:

A thermosalinograph (TSG) is used to obtain a continuous record of sea surface temperature and salinity. On many research vessels the TSG is integrated into the ship's underway seawater sampling system and reported with the underway or alongtrack data.

Parameters

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
yrday_gmt	year day, Julian Calendar time. Useful for plotting time-series data	decimal day	yrday_gmt
time_gmt	time of day; Greenwich Mean Time using 24 hour clock.	HHmm.m	time_gmt
lat	latitude, negative = South	decimal degrees	lat
lon	longitude, negative = West	decimal degrees	lon
depth_w	depth of the water	meters	depth_w
cog	course over the ground from satellite	true degrees	no_bcodmo_term
sog	speed over the ground from satellite	knots (nautical miles per hour)	sog
month_gmt	Month of year, GMT, 1 - 12		month_gmt
day_gmt	Day of month, GMT, 1 - 31		day_gmt
year	year		year
cruiseid	cruise identifier	unitless	cruiseid
year_start	year of cruise	unitless	year

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Dataset: alongtrack
Deployment: RHB0603