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Parameter:
year_decimal
Short Description:
year_decimal
Short Name:
year_decimal
Official Name:
year_decimal
Units:
dimensionless
No Data Value:
nd
Description
Year and fractional part of a year, for example, 1988.80257 = day 293 of year 1988. Time of day is included in fractional part.
Parameter Occurences in Datasets (27)
Dataset
PI-Supplied Description
PI-Supplied Name
Radiocarbon and 13C of sediment from cores collected pre- and post-hurricane Harvey at the Aransas and Anahuac National Wildlife Refuges, Texas on January 2018
Year of deposition of sediments; year with decimal fraction (1/10 of year)
Year
Two decibar averaged CTD profiles collected at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) site from October 1988 through December 2023
CTD deployment time in decimal year format
Decimal_Year_deployed
Two decibar averaged CTD profiles collected at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) site from October 1988 through December 2023
CTD recovery time in decimal year format
Decimal_Year_recovered
Discrete bottle samples collected at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) site in the Sargasso Sea from October 1988 through December 2023
Decimal Year
decimal_year
HPLC and fluorometric derived phytoplankton pigment concentrations from seawater collected at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) site from October 1988 through December 2023
Decimal year
decy
Primary productivity estimates from the incubation of seawater collected at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) site from December 1988 through December 2023
Date productivity array was deployed in Decimal Year format
decy_in
Primary productivity estimates from the incubation of seawater collected at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) site from December 1988 through December 2023
Date productivity array was recovered in Decimal Year format
decy_out
Determination of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus content in sinking particles at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) site from December 1988 to December 2023 using a Particle Interceptor Trap System (PITS)
Deployment date in decimal year
decy1_deploy
Determination of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus content in sinking particles at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) site from December 1988 to December 2023 using a Particle Interceptor Trap System (PITS)
Recovery date in decimal year
decy2_recov
Iodine speciation and superoxide concentration depth profile value from iodine radiotracer incubation experiments conducted on the R/V Atlantic Explorer cruise AE1825 with samples collected at BATS and Hydrostation S in September of 2018
Date BATS or Hydro depth profile collected in gmt
dec_year_iodate_collected_gmt
Seawater biogeochemistry inshore and offshore the Bermuda coral reef from the Bermuda coral reef platform and adjacent Sargasso Sea extending to Bermuda Atlantic Time Series-station from 2014-2018
decimal year in GMT
dec_year_in
Surface seawater carbonate chemistry parameters from the Bermuda coral reef platform timeseries, 2007-2012 (BEACON project)
Decimal Date of Sample Location
DecimalDate
Biogeochemistry and microbiology from the R/V Hermano Gines cruises in the Cariaco Basin from 1995 to 2015 (CARIACO Ocean Time-Series Program)
year as a decimal number
decimal_year
BIOS-SCOPE survey biogeochemical data as collected on Atlantic Explorer cruises (AE1614, AE1712, AE1819, AE1916) from 2016 through 2019
Date in decimal year
decy
Discrete bottle samples collected during BATS Validation (BVAL) cruises from April 1991 through June 2023
Decimal Year
decy
Two decibar averaged CTD profiles collected during BATS Validation (BVAL) cruises from April 1991 through July 2023
CTD deployment time in decimal year format
Decimal_Year_deployed
Two decibar averaged CTD profiles collected during BATS Validation (BVAL) cruises from April 1991 through July 2023
CTD recovery time in decimal year format
Decimal_Year_recovered
HPLC and fluorometric derived phytoplankton pigment concentrations from seawater collected on BATS Validation cruises from June 1996 to June 2023
Decimal year
decy
One decibar averaged CTD profiles collected at the Hydrostation S site in the Sargasso Sea from October 1988 (cruise #60643) through December 2023 (cruise #61465)
CTD deployment time in decimal year format
Decimal_Year_deployed
One decibar averaged CTD profiles collected at the Hydrostation S site in the Sargasso Sea from October 1988 (cruise #60643) through December 2023 (cruise #61465)
CTD recovery time in decimal year format
Decimal_Year_recovered
Discrete bottle data from Hydrostation S in the Sargasso Sea from January 1955 through December 2023
Decimal year
decimal_year
Experimental and survey biogeochemical and microbial data from R/V Point Sur cruises PS1009 and PS1103 in the Santa Barbara Channel from 2010-2011 (SBDOM project, SBC LTER project)
GMT decimal year.
decimal_year_gmt
Experimental and survey biogeochemical and microbial data from R/V Point Sur cruises PS1009 and PS1103 in the Santa Barbara Channel from 2010-2011 (SBDOM project, SBC LTER project)
Local decimal year.
decimal_year_local
Sugar concentrations from the BATS site in the Sargasso Sea, 2001-2004 (Ocean Microbial Observatory project)
decimal year formatted as yyyy.fraction_of_year
year_decimal
Virioplankton abundance using FISH probe at BATS site in the western Sargasso Sea from 2000-2011 (Ocean Microbial Observatory project)
decimal year
decyear
Virioplankton abundance from multiple cruises at the Bermuda AtlanticTime Series Station (BATS), Western Sargasso Sea from 2000-2011 (Ocean Microbial Observatory project)
decimal year
decyear
Taxon-specific phosphorus uptake by microbes from NW Atlantic and western Sargasso Sea from 2007-2013 (Biological C:N:P ratios project)
decimal year sample was collected; year followed by fraction of year,unitless
year_decimal
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