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Title: Zooplankton biomass data (displacement volume, wet mass, and dry mass) collected by the Sea Fisheries Research Institute (SFRI) in the active upwelling zone on the west coast of South Africa 1969-12-02 to 1969-12-16 (NODC Accession 0071850)
Abstract: Zooplankton biomass data (displacement volume, wet mass, and dry mass) collected by South African the Sea Fisheries Research Institute (SFRI) during SFRI upwelling cruises from 1969-12-02 to 1969-12-16 in the active upwelling zone on the west coast of South Africa. Data were acquired from the NMFS-COPEPOD database (NODC accession 0071850)
Date received: 20110331
Start date: 19691202
End date: 19691216
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West boundary: 17.92
East boundary: 18.43
North boundary: -33.75
South boundary: -34.32
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Submitter: O'Brien, Todd D.
Submitting institution: US DOC; NOAA; National Marine Fisheries Service
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Number of observations: 255
Supplementary information: Data in this accession are represented in COPEPOD ASCII short and full formats in the sub-directories data/0-data/data_src/short-format or
data/0-data/data_src/full-format correspondingly.

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Metadata version: 6
Keydate: 2011-03-31 23:07:10+00
Editdate: 2015-05-21 13:41:57+00