Title: Float park phase data collected at depth in the Sargasso Sea from 2013-2014.

Type Dataset Estapa, Margaret L., Buesseler, Kenneth O. (2018-04-24): Float park phase data collected at depth in the Sargasso Sea from 2013-2014.. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). Contact: bco-dmo-data@whoi.edu. Dataset. https://darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org/handle/1912/10293

Authors: Estapa, Margaret L. ; Buesseler, Kenneth O. ;

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Summary

Optical proxy measurements of sinking particle flux and water-column bio-optical profiles were obtained from profiling floats in the Sargasso Sea to expand the number of particle flux observations in the critical and under-sampled “twilight zone”. Particulate organic carbon flux derived from float-based optical sediment trap measurements was validated against fluxes measured directly with co-deployed, drifting neutrally-buoyant, sediment traps during a series of five short cruises before floats were deployed for approximately one year. The data returned by the floats comprise quantitative particle flux observations made at high-enough temporal resolution to interpret in the context of short-term, upper-ocean production events. For a complete list of measurements, refer to the supplemental document 'Field_names.pdf', and a full dataset description is included in the supplemental file 'Dataset_description.pdf'. The most current version of this dataset is available at: http://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/728335

More information

• URI: https://hdl.handle.net/1912/10293
• DOI: 10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.734334
• Language: en_US

Subjects

• Biological pump, Carbon flux, BATS, Neutrally-Buoyant Sediment Trap, Optical sediment trap

Dates

• accessioned: April 25, 2018
• available: April 25, 2018
• created: April 17, 2018
• Publication date: April 24, 2018
• coverage: Note: 20130705 - 20141124 (UTC)

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Rights

• Attribution 4.0 International
• http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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