Vertical profiles of environmental parameters measured from physical, optical and imaging sensors during station TARA_206 of the Tara Oceans expedition 2009-2013

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The Tara Oceans Expedition (2009-2013) sampled the world oceans on board a 36 m long schooner, collecting environmental data and organisms from viruses to planktonic metazoans for later analyses using modern sequencing and state-of-the-art imaging technologies. Tara Oceans Data are particularly suited to study the genetic, morphological and functional diversity of plankton. The present data set includes properties of seawater, particulate matter and dissolved matter from physical, optical and imaging sensors mounted on a vertical sampling system (Rosette) used during the 2009-2013 tara Oceans Expedition. It comprised 2 pairs of conductivity and temperature sensors (SEABIRD components), and a complete set of WEtLabs optical sensors, including chrorophyll and CDOM fluorometers, a 25 cm transmissiometer, and a one-wavelength backscatter meter. In addition, a SATLANTIC ISUS nitrate sensor and a Hydroptic Underwater Vision Profiler (UVP) were mounted on the rosette. In the Arctic Ocean and Arctic Seas (2013), a second oxygen sensor (SBE43) and a four frequency Aquascat acoustic profiler were added. The system was powered on specific Li-Ion batteries and data were self-recorded at 24HZ. Sensors have all been factory calibrated before, during and after the four year program. Oxygen was validated using climatologies (WOA09). Nitrate and Fluorescence data were adjusted with discrete measurements from Niskin bottles mounted on the Rosette, and optical darks were performed monthly on board. A total of 839 quality checked vertical profiles were made during the tara Oceans expedition 2009-2013.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.836606
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2015.23
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Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.836606
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Creator Picheral, Marc ORCID logo; Searson, Sarah ORCID logo; Taillandier, V ORCID logo; Bricaud, Annick; Boss, Emmanuel ORCID logo; Stemmann, Lars ORCID logo; Gorsky, G ORCID logo; Tara Oceans Consortium, Coordinators; Tara Oceans Expedition, Participants
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2014
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 134270 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-53.631W, 70.907S, -53.506E, 70.964N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2013-10-11T22:31:03Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-10-12T23:19:00Z