Dataset: Results from Optimum Multiparameter Water Mass Analysis (OMPA) obtained using temperature, salinity, nutrient, and oxygen data from R/V Thomas G. Thompson cruise TN303 in the Eastern Tropical Pacific from October to December 2013

Final no updates expectedDOI: 10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.713003.1Version 1 (2017-08-17)Dataset Type:Cruise Results

Principal Investigator: Karen L. Casciotti (Stanford University)

Co-Principal Investigator: Mark A. Brzezinski (University of California-Santa Barbara)

Co-Principal Investigator: Gregory A. Cutter (Old Dominion University)

Co-Principal Investigator: Christopher R. German (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Co-Principal Investigator: William J. Jenkins (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Co-Principal Investigator: James W. Moffett (University of Southern California)

Co-Principal Investigator: James H. Swift (University of California-San Diego Scripps)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Shannon Rauch (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Program: U.S. GEOTRACES (U.S. GEOTRACES)

Project: U.S. GEOTRACES East Pacific Zonal Transect (GP16) (U.S. GEOTRACES EPZT)

Project: GEOTRACES Peru-Tahiti Nitrogen Isotope Measurements (EPZT Nitrogen Isotopes)

Project: Measurement of Helium Isotopes, Tritium, Noble Gases, and Radiocarbon (EPZT Noble Gases He Tritium)


Abstract

Results from Optimum Multiparameter Water Mass Analysis (OMPA) obtained using temperature, salinity, nutrient, and oxygen data from R/V Thomas G. Thompson cruise TN303 in the Eastern Tropical Pacific from October to December 2013.

Water mass percentage data from Optimum Multiparameter Water Mass Analysis (OMPA) for GP16 obtained using temperature, salinity, nutrient, and oxygen data.


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