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Abstract:
The Tara Pacific expedition (2016-2018) sampled coral ecosystems around 32 islands in the Pacific Ocean, and sampled the surface of oceanic waters at 249 locations, resulting in the collection of nearly 58,000 samples. The expedition was designed to systematically study corals, fish, plankton, and seawater, and included the collection of samples for advanced biogeochemical, molecular, and imaging analysis. Here we provide the continuous dataset originating from the thermosalinograph [TSG] instrument acquiring continuously during the full course of the campaign. Surface seawater was pumped continuously through a hull inlet located 1.5 m under the waterline using a membrane pump (10 LPM; Shurflo), circulated through a vortex debubbler, a flow meter, and distributed to a number of flow-through instruments. A thermosalinograph [TSG] (SeaBird Electronics SBE45/SBE38), measured temperature, conductivity, and thus salinity. Salinity measurements where intercalibrated against unfiltered seawater samples [SAL] taken every week from the surface ocean, and corrected for any observed bias. Moreover, temperature and salinity measurements were validated against Argo floats data collocated with Tara.
Keyword(s):
Salinity; Temperature
Related to:
Flores, J Michel; Bourdin, Guillaume; Altaratz, Orit; Trainic, Miri; Lang-Yona, Naama; Dzimban, Edouard; Steinau, Sebastian; Tettich, F; Planes, Serge; Allemand, Denis; Agostini, Sylvain; Banaigs, Bernard; Boissin, Emilie; Boss, Emmanuel; Douville, Eric; Forcioli, Didier; Furla, Paola; Galand, Pierre E; Sullivan, Matthew B; Gilson, Eric; Lombard, Fabien; Moulin, Clémentine; Pesant, Stephane; Poulain, Julie; Reynaud, Stéphanie; Romac, Sarah; Sunagawa, Shinichi; Thomas, Olivier; Troublé, Romain; De Vargas, Colomban; Vega Thurber, Rebecca; Voolstra, Christian R; Wincker, Patrick; Zoccola, Didier; Bowler, Chris; Gorsky, G; Rudich, Yinon; Vardi, Assaf; Koren, Ilan (2020): Tara Pacific Expedition's Atmospheric Measurements of Marine Aerosols across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans: Overview and Preliminary Results. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 101(5), E536-E554, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0224.1
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Coverage:
Median Latitude: 4.988551 * Median Longitude: -160.832658 * South-bound Latitude: -35.879740 * West-bound Longitude: 109.454140 * North-bound Latitude: 51.704280 * East-bound Longitude: -3.470090
Date/Time Start: 2016-05-29T00:03:00 * Date/Time End: 2018-10-26T20:02:00
Event(s):
TARA_2016-2018 * Location: Pacific Ocean * Campaign: TARA_PACIFIC_2016-2018 * Basis: SV Tara * Method/Device: Underway, multiple sensors (UMS)
Parameter(s):
#NameShort NameUnitPrincipal InvestigatorMethod/DeviceComment
1DATE/TIMEDate/TimeLombard, FabienGeocode – UTC
2LATITUDELatitudeLombard, FabienGeocode
3LONGITUDELongitudeLombard, FabienGeocode
4Temperature, waterTemp°CLombard, FabienCTD, Sea-Bird, SBE45/SBE38Sea surface temperature
5SalinitySalLombard, FabienCTD, Sea-Bird, SBE45/SBE38Uncalibrated
6SalinitySalLombard, FabienCTD, Sea-Bird, SBE45/SBE38Calibrated
Status:
Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)
Size:
1770033 data points

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