Dataset: Profiling float surface dates, times and locations from the Sargasso Sea from 2013 to 2014.

Final no updates expectedDOI: 10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.734354Version 1 (2018-04-17)Dataset Type:Cruise Results

Principal Investigator, Contact: Margaret L. Estapa (Skidmore College)

Co-Principal Investigator: Kenneth O. Buesseler (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Hannah Ake (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Program: Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB)

Project: Rapid, Autonomous Particle Flux Observations in the Oligotrophic Ocean (RapAutParticleFlux)


Abstract

Optical proxy measurements of sinking particle flux and water-column bio-optical profiles were obtained from profiling floats in the Sargasso Sea to expand the number of particle flux observations in the critical and under-sampled “twilight zone”. A typical float cycle consisted of the descent to the target park depth, a park phase at the target depth which cycled among depths ranging 150-1000 m, a descent to 1000 m, an ascent to the surface during which measurements are made, and a surface tel...

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Profiling float surface dates, times and locations from the Sargasso Sea from 2013 to 2014.


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