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Title: Zooplankton biomass (displacement volume) data collected in Indian Ocean, Southern Pacific and Southern Atlantic Ocean during Discovery Investigations project from 1931-01-02 to 1951-10-18 by Discovery II, data were acquired from the NMFS-COPEPOD database (NODC Accession 0071064)
Abstract: Zooplankton biomass (displacement volume) data collected in Indian Ocean, Southern Pacific and Southern Atlantic Ocean during Discovery Investigations project from 1931-01-02 to 1951-10-18 by R/V Discovery II. Data were compiled by P. Foxton. Data were acquired from the NMFS-COPEPOD database in COPEPOD database format.
Date received: 20110301
Start date: 19320102
End date: 19511018
Seanames: Indian Ocean, South Atlantic Ocean, South Pacific Ocean, Tasman Sea
West boundary: -152.01
East boundary: 130.12
North boundary: -2
South boundary: -70.185
Observation types: biological, plankton, tows, tows - vertical tow
Instrument types: net, net - plankton net, net - zooplankton net
Datatypes: biological data, BIOMASS, BIOMASS - PLANKTON, TOTAL DISPLACEMENT VOLUME, ZOOPLANKTON, ZOOPLANKTON BIOMASS
Submitter: Foxton, Peter
Submitting institution: US DOC; NOAA; National Marine Fisheries Service
Collecting institutions: United Kingdom Hydrographic Office
Contributing projects: GODAR
Platforms: Discovery II (74DS)
Number of observations: 366
Supplementary information: Portions of the data in this collection were digitized from paper documents and data tables by the COPEPOD Historical Plankton Data Search & Rescue project (COPEPOD-SAR) from the manuscript:

Foxton, P. 1956 Discovery Reports Volume XXVIII, pp. 191-236, April 1956.

There are year errors in the file: 74ds-380122_foxton1956.txt

Year 1939 must be changed to year 1938 for the following COPEPOD internal STATION IDs:

74DS-380122__0119,74DS-380122__0120,74DS-380122__0121,
74DS-380122__0122,74DS-380122__0123,74DS-380122__0124,
74DS-380122__0125,74DS-380122__0126,74DS-380122__0127,
74DS-380122__0128
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Metadata version: 8
Keydate: 2011-03-01 22:08:39+00
Editdate: 2022-09-24 22:20:52+00