Dataset: DOC, TDN, and Nutrients from the RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer NBP1302 cruise in the Ross Sea during 2013 (TRACERS project)

This dataset includes water column concentrations of DOC, TDN, and nutrients collected from February 13, 2013 to March 18, 2013 along the Ross Sea shelf. Sampling focus was in the western Ross Sea along with a zonal section on 76° 30ˈS.

Related files and references:
Physical data from NBP 1302 are archived by the Marine Geoscience Data System. Data held there include shipboard continuous underway (e.g., thermosalinograph and fluorescence), bathymetry, CTD, meteorological, XBT, and navigation. The project link: http://www.marine-geo.org/tools/search/entry.php?id=NBP1302

DOC methodology
Dickson, A.G., Sabine, C.L., Christian, J.R. (Eds.) Guide to best practices for ocean CO₂ measurements. PICES Special Publication 3, 191.

Phosphate methodology
K Grasshoff. 1976. Methods of seawater analysis. Verlga Chemie, Weinheim

Silicate methodology
J.D.H Strickland and T.R. Parsons. 1968. A Practical Handbook of Seawater Analyses. Ottawa: Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Bulletin.

Nitrate methodology
Braman, R.S. and S.A. Hendrix. 1989. Nanogram nitrite and nitrate determination in biological materials by vanadium(III) reduction with chemiluminescence detection. Anal. Chem. 61 (24). 2715-2718.