Dissolved major element concentration data of the Equatorial Pacific Ocean transect during RV SONNE cruise SO298

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This dataset presents absolute salinity-normalized dissolved major element (Ca, Mg, K, Sr, Li) concentrations along RV SONNE cruise track SO298 along the Equatorial Pacific Ocean collected during GEOTRACES GP11 expedition (Guayaquil, Ecuador - Townsville, Australia) from April 14th to June 2nd, 2023. Samples were collected from the trace-metal clean Ti-frame rosette equipped with a Kevlar-coated winch. Samples were filtered through 0.2 µm AcroPak™ 500 filter capsules, collected in acid-cleaned 4 mL PP tubes, and acidified to pH ~2 with trace metal-grade HCl. Samples were analysed for Na, Ca, Mg, K, Li and Sr using a Varian-720 ES ICP-OES. Samples were diluted by a factor of 78-82 in 0.12 M HCl to the same final salinity. Multiple spectral lines were selected for each element, and samples were corrected for instrumental drift by sample-standard bracketing with IAPSO P166 diluted to the same final salinity. Calibration was performed on 7 dilutions of IAPSO P166. Element-to-sodium ratios were calculated for all combinations of spectral lines. Assuming a constant Na-to-salinity (PSU)=35 ratio, the element/Na ratios were multiplied by 0.46847 µmol kg-1 to obtain the salinity (PSU)-normalized element concentration, and by the ratio of practical to absolute salinity (TEOS-10). The TEOS-10 absolute salinities were calculated from EOS-80 values using the Gibb's Oceanographic Toolbox using the R package 'gsw' (v 1.1-1).

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.977810
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.977810
Provenance
Creator O'Sullivan, Edel Mary; Steiner, Zvi ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2025
Funding Reference Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 458035111 Biogeochemistry of major elements in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 6063 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-81.294W, -2.272S, 157.858E, 0.003N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2023-04-15T15:01:13Z
Temporal Coverage End 2023-05-25T20:33:23Z