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Title: The Pacific Ocean Interior Carbon (PACIFICA) Database: Dissolved Inorganic Carbon, Alkalinity, pH, temperature, salinity, and other variables collected from profile observations using CTD, discrete bottles, and other instruments from 1985-02-12 to 2009-06-17 (NCEI Accession 0110865)
Abstract: This NCEI Accession consists of the PACIFic ocean Interior CArbon (PACIFICA) data product. PACIFICA (PACIFic ocean Interior CArbon) was an international collaborative project for the data synthesis of ocean interior carbon and its related parameters in the Pacific Ocean. The North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES), Section on Carbon and Climate (S-CC) supported the project. We have merged hydrographic/hydrochemical datasets from a total 213 cruise, including those from cruises conducted between the late 1980s and 2000 but not stored in GLODAP, as well as CLIVAR/CO2 Repeat Hydrography in 2000s. The adjustment values were estimated for the analytical offsets in the data of dissolved inorganic carbon, total alkalinity, salinity, oxygen and nutrients (nitrate and nitrite, phosphate, and silicic acid) for each cruise as a result of the secondary quality control procedure, based on the crossover analysis for the data from deep layers (Tanhua et.al., 2010). We also merged a total 59 adjusted datasets from Line P off the west coast of Canada. Finally, we have produced the adjusted PACIFICA database that consists of datasets from a total of 306 cruises that also including 34 datasets from WOCE Hydrographic Program cruises in the Pacific Ocean conducted in the 1990s. The PACIFICA database is available free of charge as a numeric data package (NDP-92) from the OCADS (Ocean Carbon Data System; formerly CDIAC-Oceans) and PACIFICA web sites. The NDP consists of the original cruise data files, adjusted data products, and this documentation, which describes the PACIFICA project.
Date received: 20130719
Start date: 19850212
End date: 20090617
Seanames: Arctic Ocean, Beaufort Sea, Bering Sea, Bismarck Sea, Chukchi Sea, Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia, Coral Sea, East China Sea (Tung Hai), Gulf of Alaska, Indian Ocean, Japan Sea, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, North Pacific Ocean, Northwestern Passages, Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, Philippine Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, South Pacific Ocean, Tasman Sea
West boundary: 120.8895
East boundary: -71.5003
North boundary: 80.2277
South boundary: -70.9995
Observation types: discrete sample, profile
Instrument types: bottle, coulometer for DIC measurement, CTD
Datatypes: Carbon tetrachloride (CCL4), CHLOROFLUOROCARBON-113 (CFC-113), CHLOROFLUOROCARBON-11 (CFC-11), CHLOROFLUOROCARBON-12 (CFC-12), DELTA CARBON-14, DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON (DIC), DISSOLVED OXYGEN, NEON, OXYGEN - APPARENT UTILIZATION (AOU), pH, Potential temperature (theta), SALINITY, SIGMA-T, SIGMA-THETA, sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), total alkalinity, WATER TEMPERATURE
Submitter: Suzuki, Toru
Submitting institution: Japan Hydrographic Association; Marine Information Research Center
Collecting institutions: Japan Hydrographic Association; Marine Information Research Center
Contributing projects: PACIFICA
Platforms: VARIOUS CHARTERED VESSELS (1888)
Number of observations:
Supplementary information:
Availability date:
Metadata version: 10
Keydate: 2013-07-19 12:40:15+00
Editdate: 2021-08-26 16:07:54+00