| Acartia tonsa mortality collected from a plankton net with associated CTD data from 5 day-trips in mid-Chesapeake Bay from August to October 2013 (CopesPopDynHypoZone project) | Optical backscatter as recorded by CTD sensor for each cast
| obs |
| CTD profile data, including beam attenuation from R/V Thomas G. Thompson TT039, TT043, TT045, TT049, TT050, TT053, TT054 cruises in the Arabian Sea (U.S. JGOFS Arabian Sea project) | backscattered light from a Light Scattering Sensor
| light_bs |
| CTD Profiles from multiple C-MORE cruises in the north and south Pacific from 2007-2008 (C-MORE project) | light backscattered
| light_bs |
| Taxonomy and abundance of microbial cells (phytoplankon and heterotrophic bacteria) during a deployment of the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) in Fall, 2014 in Monterey Bay, CA | non-pigmented bacteria mean DNA content from flow cytometer
| HBact_Mean_DNA |
| Taxonomy and abundance of microbial cells (phytoplankon and heterotrophic bacteria) during a deployment of the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) in Fall, 2014 in Monterey Bay, CA | non-pigmented bacteria mean forward scatter from flow cytometer
| HBact_Mean_FS |
| Taxonomy and abundance of microbial cells (phytoplankon and heterotrophic bacteria) during a deployment of the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) in Fall, 2014 in Monterey Bay, CA | non-pigmented bacteria mean side scatter from flow cytometer
| HBact_Mean_SS |
| Taxonomy and abundance of microbial cells (phytoplankon and heterotrophic bacteria) during a deployment of the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) in Fall, 2014 in Monterey Bay, CA | high Phycoerythrin and Chlorophyll cell chlorophyll mean content from flow cytometer
| HiPE_Phyto_Mean_Chl |
| Taxonomy and abundance of microbial cells (phytoplankon and heterotrophic bacteria) during a deployment of the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) in Fall, 2014 in Monterey Bay, CA | high Phycoerythrin and Chlorophyll cell mean DNA content from flow cytometer
| HiPE_Phyto_Mean_DNA |
| Taxonomy and abundance of microbial cells (phytoplankon and heterotrophic bacteria) during a deployment of the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) in Fall, 2014 in Monterey Bay, CA | high Phycoerythrin and Chlorophyll cell mean forward scatter from flow cytometer
| HiPE_Phyto_Mean_FS |
| Taxonomy and abundance of microbial cells (phytoplankon and heterotrophic bacteria) during a deployment of the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) in Fall, 2014 in Monterey Bay, CA | high Phycoerythrin and Chlorophyll cell mean side scatter from flow cytometer
| HiPE_Phyto_Mean_SS |
| Taxonomy and abundance of microbial cells (phytoplankon and heterotrophic bacteria) during a deployment of the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) in Fall, 2014 in Monterey Bay, CA | photosynthetic eukaryote chlorophyll mean content from flow cytometer
| Peuk_Mean_Chl |
| Taxonomy and abundance of microbial cells (phytoplankon and heterotrophic bacteria) during a deployment of the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) in Fall, 2014 in Monterey Bay, CA | photosynthetic eukaryote mean DNA content from flow cytometer
| Peuk_Mean_DNA |
| Taxonomy and abundance of microbial cells (phytoplankon and heterotrophic bacteria) during a deployment of the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) in Fall, 2014 in Monterey Bay, CA | photosynthetic eukaryote mean forward scatter from flow cytometer
| Peuk_Mean_FS |
| Taxonomy and abundance of microbial cells (phytoplankon and heterotrophic bacteria) during a deployment of the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) in Fall, 2014 in Monterey Bay, CA | photosynthetic eukaryote mean side scatter from flow cytometer
| Peuk_Mean_SS |
| Taxonomy and abundance of microbial cells (phytoplankon and heterotrophic bacteria) during a deployment of the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) in Fall, 2014 in Monterey Bay, CA | Prochlorococcus chlorophyll mean content from flow cytometer
| Pro_Mean_Chl |
| Taxonomy and abundance of microbial cells (phytoplankon and heterotrophic bacteria) during a deployment of the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) in Fall, 2014 in Monterey Bay, CA | Prochlorococcus mean DNA content from flow cytometer
| Pro_Mean_DNA |
| Taxonomy and abundance of microbial cells (phytoplankon and heterotrophic bacteria) during a deployment of the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) in Fall, 2014 in Monterey Bay, CA | Prochlorococcus mean forward scatter from flow cytometer
| Pro_Mean_FS |
| Taxonomy and abundance of microbial cells (phytoplankon and heterotrophic bacteria) during a deployment of the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) in Fall, 2014 in Monterey Bay, CA | Prochlorococcus mean side scatter from flow cytometer
| Pro_Mean_SS |
| Taxonomy and abundance of microbial cells (phytoplankon and heterotrophic bacteria) during a deployment of the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) in Fall, 2014 in Monterey Bay, CA | Synechococcus chlorophyll mean content from flow cytometer
| Syn_Mean_Chl |
| Taxonomy and abundance of microbial cells (phytoplankon and heterotrophic bacteria) during a deployment of the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) in Fall, 2014 in Monterey Bay, CA | Synechococcus mean DNA content from flow cytometer
| Syn_Mean_DNA |
| Taxonomy and abundance of microbial cells (phytoplankon and heterotrophic bacteria) during a deployment of the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) in Fall, 2014 in Monterey Bay, CA | Synechococcus mean forward scatter from flow cytometer
| Syn_Mean_FS |
| Taxonomy and abundance of microbial cells (phytoplankon and heterotrophic bacteria) during a deployment of the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) in Fall, 2014 in Monterey Bay, CA | Synechococcus mean side scatter from flow cytometer
| Syn_Mean_SS |
| Vertical CTD profiles, bin-averaged, and downcast from the R/V Savannah cruises in the South Atlantic Bight (SAB) continental shelf off Long Bay (-79W, 32N; -77W, 34 N) (Long Bay Wintertime Bloom project) | voltage 2: optical backscatter meter; raw output
| light_bs |
| Physcial data from GLOBEC Georges Bank Long-term Moored Array Component on the Northeast Peak, Mar-Aug 1999 | optical backscatter
| opt_back |
| Diel series of pico-cyanobacteria concentration and cell properties from the RV Cape Hatteras cruises CH0409 and CH0510 in the Western Sargasso Sea in 2009 and 2010. | Mean Prochlorococcus cellular forward angle light scatter
| pro_fals |
| Diel series of pico-cyanobacteria concentration and cell properties from the RV Cape Hatteras cruises CH0409 and CH0510 in the Western Sargasso Sea in 2009 and 2010. | Mean Synechococcus cellular forward angle light scatter
| syn_fals |
| CTD-associated variables, bottle salinity measurements, oxygen titrations, nutrient analyses, biogeochemical/biological variables, and DIC/Freon chemistry variables from R/V Roger Revelle cruise RR2004 along the 150W meridian from 30S to 60S | backscattering measured with a WET Labs ECO-BB
| V5_WET_Labs_ECO_BB_Volts |
| SCANFISH data from R/V Pelican cruises PE03-NGOMEX, PE04-NGOMEX, PE06-NGOMEX, PE07-NGOMEX, PE09-05, PE11-06 in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, 28-30N 89-94W; 2003-2010 (GoMX NGOMEX project) | Backscatter
| Backscatter |
| Environmental data, nitrifier abundance, ammonia oxidation rates from six from R/V Savannah cruises in the South Atlantic Bight in 2014 (GCE-LTER) | Optical backscatter; raw output. See processing description for more details.
| opt_bs |
| Species composition from net tows and associated CTD data from a small boat in the Mid-Chesapeake Bay from August to October 2013 (CopesPopDynHypoZone project) | Optical backscatter as recorded by CTD sensor for each cast
| obs |
| CTD bottle data collected near the Axial Seamount on the Juan de Fuca Ridge on R/V Thomas G. Thompson TN327 in August 2015. | Light scattering sensor output in volts.
| LSS_V4 |
| CTD bottle data collected near the Axial Seamount on the Juan de Fuca Ridge on R/V Thomas G. Thompson TN327 in August 2015. | Light scattering sensor output in volts.
| LSS_V5 |
| Video Plankton Recorder environmental sensor data from the third cruise of SPIROPA project, R/V Thomas G. Thompson cruise TN368, to the New England Shelfbreak in July of 2019 | ECO Bb. ECO-triplet backscatter.
| ECO_Bb |
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