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Title: Hydrography and primary productivity data from GYRE and SUNCOASTER in the Gulf of Mexico as part of the MMS Southwest Florida Shelf Ecosystems Study from 1982-04-02 to 1982-09-18 (NCEI Accession 8400049)
Abstract: This dataset includes hydrography and primary productivity data collected from GYRE and R/V SUNCOASTER in the Gulf of Mexico as part of the Southwest Florida Shelf Ecosystems Study (Year 2, Modification No. 1) from 4/2/82 to 9/18/82. Data has been processed by NODC to the NODC standard High-Resolution CTD/STD (F022) and Primary Productivity 2 (F049) formats.

The F022 format contains high-resolution data collected using CTD (conductivity-temperature-depth) and STD (salinity-temperature-depth) instruments. As they are lowered and raised in the oceans, these electronic devices provide nearly continuous profiles of temperature, salinity, and other parameters. Data values may be subject to averaging or filtering or obtained by interpolation and may be reported at depth intervals as fine as 1m. Cruise and instrument information, position, date, time and sampling interval are reported for each station. Environmental data at the time of the cast (meteorological and sea surface conditions) may also be reported. The data record comprises values of temperature, salinity or conductivity, density (computed sigma-t), and possibly dissolved oxygen or transmissivity at specified depth or pressure levels. Data may be reported at either equally or unequally spaced depth or pressure intervals. A text record is available for comments.

The F049 format contains data from measurements of photosynthetic capacity and phytoplankton productivity. In addition to cruise information, position, date, time, sampling depths, bottom depth, and general environmental information, this file may contain measured parameters including: concentrations of chlorophylls a, b, c, plant carotenoids, and phaeo-pigments; concentrations of oxygen, particulate organic carbon, ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, silicate, and urea; temperature, salinity, and total alkalinity; and light penetration and light intensity. Values of photosynthetic capacity and primary productivity may be reported as total values or partial values for phytoplankton, net plankton, nano-plankton, and dissolved organic matter.
Date received: 19840305
Start date: 19820402
End date: 19820918
Seanames:
West boundary: -85
East boundary: -83.08
North boundary: 27.25
South boundary: 25.34
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Submitter: Macdonald, Keith B.
Submitting institution: Woodward-Clyde Consultants
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Supplementary information: The publication listed below is related to the data collection and is available from the NOAA Central Library:

Southwest Florida shelf ecosystems study, year 2 : cruise I, hydrography and primary productivity. [Calif.?] : Woodward-Clyde Consultants ; [Georgia] : Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, [1982?].

Note: Metadata for this accession were extracted from a legacy database maintained by the U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). The design of the database did not exactly reflect the FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM).

Principal Investigator (PI) and organization contact information accurately represents all available information from the legacy database at the time that this description was created. However, proper attribution of a PI to a specific institution or the role (submitting or collecting) taken by an institution may not be correct due to inexact mapping between fields in the legacy database and the CSDGM. Due to this uncertainty, the contact information was initially recorded in the Supplemental Information element of the CSDGM description.

To develop more accurate metadata, NCEI reviews metadata for all accessions on an ongoing basis.

Points of contact for this data set include:
Contact info:
Agency: WOODWARD-CLYDE CONSULTANTS
PI: N/A
Address:
address: 3489 KURTZ STREET
city: SAN DIEGO
state: CA
postal: 92110
country: UNITED STATES
Availability date: 19840305
Metadata version: 10
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:34:12+00
Editdate: 2024-12-01 15:21:39+00