Dataset: Two decibar averaged CTD profiles collected at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) site from October 1988 through July 2024

Under revisionDOI: 10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.3918.8Version 9 (2025-02-26)Dataset Type:Cruise Results

Principal Investigator: Nicholas Bates (Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences)

Scientist: Rodney J. Johnson (Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences)

Scientist: Paul J. Lethaby (Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences)

Technician: Eloise Chambers (Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences)

Data Manager: Dominic Smith (Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Dana Stuart Gerlach (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Audrey Mickle (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Program: Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB)

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

Program: Ocean Time-series Sites (Ocean Time-series)

Project: Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS)


Abstract

Data presented here are profiles of primary CTD parameters (pressure, depth, temperature, conductivity, and salinity) plus auxiliary measurements of dissolved oxygen, beam attenuation, relative fluorescence, and photosynthetic active radiation (PAR) at the BATS site 31° 40' N 64° 10'W for October 1988- July 2024. Profiles were collected using a standard Sea-Bird SBE-09 plus CTD during the monthly core BATS cruises and near biweekly BATS bloom cruises during the months of February through April ...

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Data collection is ongoing, with updates made semi-annually. Decadal subsets are attached here as supplemental files. For guidance on downloading data subsets from our data server, please refer to the BCO-DMO ERDDAP instructions here: https://guide.bco-dmo.org/access-and-reuse/erddap.


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Results

McGillicuddy, D. J., Johnson, R., Siegel, D. A., Michaels, A. F., Bates, N. R., & Knap, A. H. (1999). Mesoscale variations of biogeochemical properties in the Sargasso Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 104(C6), 13381–13394. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1029/1999jc900021
Results

McGillicuddy, D. J., Robinson, A. R., Siegel, D. A., Jannasch, H. W., Johnson, R., Dickey, T. D., McNeil, J., Michaels, A. F., & Knap, A. H. (1998). Influence of mesoscale eddies on new production in the Sargasso Sea. Nature, 394(6690), 263–266. https://doi.org/10.1038/28367
Methods

BATS (2023). Protocols for the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study Core Measurements. Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, 142 pp.
Methods

Knap, A.H., Michaels, A.F., Steinberg, D.K., Bahr, F., Bates, N.R., Bell, S., Countway, P., Close, A.R., Doyle, A.P., Dow, R.L., Howse, F.A., Gundersen, K., Johnson, R.J., Kelly, R., Little, R., Orcutt, K., Parsons, R., Rathburn, C., Sanderson, M. and Stone, S. (1997) BATS Methods Manual, Version 4 Woods Hole, MA, US. U.S. JGOFS Planning Office 136pp.
Software

MATLAB. (2015). MATLAB version R2015b [Computer software]. The Mathworks, Inc.