NOAA CSC/CRS Cruise MAR96OMP: Mid Atlantic Bight Cruise

Metadata:

Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Ajit Subramaniam, REMSA, NOAA Coastal Services Center
Originator: John C. Brock, NOAA Coastal Services Center
Originator: Kevin Wyman , Brookhaven National Laboratory
Publication_Date: 1998
Title: NOAA CSC/CRS Cruise MAR96OMP: Mid Atlantic Bight Cruise
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: profile
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Charleston, South Carolina
Publisher: NOAA Coastal Services Center
Online_Linkage: http://www.csc.noaa.gov/crs/cruises/mar96omp/index.html
Description:
Abstract:
The Coastal Services Center's (CSC) Coastal Remote Sensing (CRS) program is involved with programs to validate satellite algorithms for ocean properties. CRS is involved with the effort to validate ocean color algorithms to derive chlorophyll concentrations from the NASA ocean color satellite, Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS). This program is funded in part through a NASA Sensor Intercomparison and Merger for Biological and Interdisciplinary Oceanic Studies ( SIMBIOS) contract awarded to CRS and the Ocean Color Program at the NOAA NESDIS Office of Research and Applications. The development and validation of satellite algorithms requires ground truthing to ensure accuracy. For some satellite products, such as the sea surface temperature (SST), the ground truthing may be conducted using instruments affixed to oceanographic buoys. For other potential products, buoys may not be suitable for ground truthing, either because there are no available instruments to place on a buoy that will return adequate ground truth information (for example, for primary productivity) or because costs would be prohibitive. For optically derived products, such as turbidity or chlorophyll concentration, bio-fouling problems would require an expensive maintenance program. For these reasons, a ship-based program is often the most sensible method to develop new satellite based ocean products. In addition to information provided by CSC's instruments, the CRS team often works with other partners who provide complementary data and ship time.
Purpose:
The objective of this cruise was to obtain bio-optical data from diverse water types in the Mid Atlantic Bight, extending from coastal, to continental shelf, and open ocean regimes.
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: 19960301
Ending_Date: 19960310
Currentness_Reference: Publication Date
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Unknown
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -74.776
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -70.342
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 41.118
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 35.450
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Theme_Keyword: oceanography
Theme_Keyword: bio-optical
Theme_Keyword: turbidity
Theme_Keyword: water clarity
Theme_Keyword: algal blooms
Theme_Keyword: coastal water optics
Theme_Keyword: case II algorithms
Theme_Keyword: light attenuation
Theme_Keyword: reflectance difference
Theme_Keyword: in-situ optical profiling
Theme_Keyword: ocean color satellites
Theme_Keyword: coastal ocean algorithm development
Theme_Keyword: river plumes
Theme_Keyword: AVHRR
Theme_Keyword: downwelling irradiance
Theme_Keyword: upwelling radiance
Theme_Keyword: temperature
Theme_Keyword: chlorophyll
Theme_Keyword: particulate absorption
Theme_Keyword: colored dissolved organic matter
Theme_Keyword: salinity
Theme_Keyword: spectral attenuation
Theme_Keyword: spectral absorption
Theme_Keyword: beam attenuation
Theme_Keyword: scalar quantum irradiance
Theme_Keyword: light scattering
Theme_Keyword: fluorescence
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Place_Keyword: Mid Atlantic Bight
Place_Keyword: United States
Temporal:
Temporal_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Temporal_Keyword: Winter
Temporal_Keyword: March, 1996
Access_Constraints: None
Use_Constraints:
This data was acquired for scientific research and is applicable for algorithm validation purposes. Knowledge of in-water optics is expected of users for interpretation of the data. Users of this data are required to provide appropriate attribution in the form of co-authorship for any publications that use this data, unless formal permission to do otherwise is granted by NOAA/CSC.
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: NOAA Coastal Services Center
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 2234 Hobson Avenue
City: Charleston
State_or_Province: South Carolina
Postal_Code: 29405-2413
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (843) 740-1200
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (843) 740-1224
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: csc@csc.noaa.gov
Hours_of_Service: 8AM-5PM, M-F
Data_Set_Credit:
Master and crew of R/V Endeavour, and the chief scientist of the Ocean Margins Program. Cruise # EN 279.

Data_Quality_Information:
Attribute_Accuracy:
Attribute_Accuracy_Report:
Refer to the Process Step section for specific calibration information. The primary instrumentation on the cruise are sent to the respective manufacturers for calibration at least once per year. Calibration certificates for the relevant instrumentation are available in the full written report. Secondary instrumentation were calibrated only upon purchase. Calibration of the WetStar in situ Fluorometer is conducted during the cruise by comparing the fluorescence reading of a series of samples placed in the instrument with the measured chlorophyll concentration measured by extracting the samples for laboratory analysis. Laboratory calibrations of the Turner Designs fluorometer are conducted as needed using known concentrations of purified photosynthetic pigment extracts (measured using a spectophotometer) purchased commercially or isolated from algal cultures.
Logical_Consistency_Report:
The PRR data was processed using the Bermuda Bio-Optics Project (BBOP) processing software. A least common denominator (LCD) file was created from the binary data files, the cast card files, the calibration files, and cruise notes. The LCD file header contains the metadata for the cast and includes information on the parameters sampled, parameters derived, filters used, and the statistical results of the regression used to extrapolate light to the sub-surface. The pressure channel data was recalculated using an offset to adjust for the distance of the pressure sensor from the cosine collector. The tops and bottoms of the individual profiles were marked using an interactive Matlab( script and the corresponding record numbers were inserted into the LCD header section. Data less than the dark threshold was replaced by -9.9x1035. Then the data was quality controlled using flags for data with tilt and roll angles greater than 10( (flag value greater than 0 in the "aq-1Tilt-1Roll" field), and records where the surface incident irradiance was not uniform (flag value greater than 0 in the "kq-1ed412" field). The temperature, transmissometer, and fluorometer data were despiked, in two passes, with a difference threshold. A moving average was calculated for these channels. The data were separated into upcast and downcast profiles and then binned to 0.5-m bins. Spectral attenuation coefficients were calculated for the optical channels over a five point moving window. Subsurface downwelling irradiance and upwelling radiance were extrapolated to just below the surface using data from the top 3 meters.
Completeness_Report:
Refer to the separate sections of Logical Consistency, Methodology, and Process Steps for descriptions of completeness of the data.
Lineage:
Methodology:
Methodology_Type: Shipboard Deployments and data collection
Methodology_Identifier:
Methodology_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Methodology_Keyword: bio-optical data
Methodology_Keyword: depth profiles
Methodology_Keyword: spectral downwelling irradiance measurement
Methodology_Keyword: spectral upwelling radiance
Methodology_Keyword: temperature measurement
Methodology_Keyword: bottle sampling
Methodology_Keyword: CTD profiles
Methodology_Keyword: water sampling
Methodology_Keyword: Niskin bottles
Methodology_Description:
The Profiling Reflectance Radiometer (PRR) cage was deployed off the starboadr side of the boat, to measure in-situ spectral downwelling irradiance, spectral upwelling radiance, temperature, chlorophyll fluorescence, light scattering, quantum scalar irradiance, and beam attenuation. A Sequoia LISST particle size analyzer was attached to the PRR cage.
Methodology_Type:
Lab calibration of fluorometer and analysis of chlorophyll extracts.
Methodology_Identifier:
Methodology_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Methodology_Keyword: chlorophyll
Methodology_Keyword: fluorescence
Methodology_Keyword: fluorometer
Methodology_Keyword: extraction
Methodology_Description:
The concentration of purified chlorophyll a, dissolved in 90% acetone (10% water), was measured using a spectrophotometer and used to calibrate the Turner Designs Model 10-AU fluorometer. Aboard ship, a measured volume of seawater was filtered onto a Whatman GF/F filter and stored in liquid nitrogen until lab analysis. In the lab the filter was ground and extracted in 10 ml of 90% acetone and left in a freezer (-20 C) overnight. After centrifugation, the chlorophyll concentration in the supernatant was measured using the fluorometer.
Methodology_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: T.R. Parsons
Originator: Y. Maita
Originator: C.M. Lalli
Publication_Date: 1984
Title:
A manual for Chemical and Biological Methods for Seawater Analysis
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: New York, New York, USA
Publisher: Pergamon Press
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Calibration of the Biospherical Instruments QSP200 Quantum Scalar Radiometer.
Process_Date: 19960124
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: Biospherical Instruments, Inc.
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 5340 Riley Street
City: San Diego
State_or_Province: California
Postal_Code: 92110-2621
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (619) 686-1888
Process_Step:
Process_Description: Calibration of the Biospherical PRV-600s PRR Spectroradiometer.
Process_Date: 19960124
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: Biospherical Instruments, Inc.
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 5340 Riley Street
City: San Diego
State_or_Province: California
Postal_Code: 92110-2621
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (619) 686-1888
Process_Step:
Process_Description: Calibration of the Biospherical PRV610 PRR Spectroradiometer.
Process_Date: 19960124
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: Biospherical Instruments, Inc.
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 5340 Riley Street
City: San Diego
State_or_Province: California
Postal_Code: 92110-2621
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (619) 686-1888
Process_Step:
Process_Description: Calibration of the SeaTech C660 Transmissometer.
Process_Date: 1995
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: Sea Tech, Inc.
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 825 NE Circle Blvd.
City: Corvallis
State_or_Province: Oregon
Postal_Code: 97330
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (206) 757-9716
Process_Step:
Process_Description: Calibration of the SeaTech LSS Light Scattering Sensor.
Process_Date: 1995
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: Sea Tech, Inc.
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 825 NE Circle Blvd.
City: Corvallis
State_or_Province: Oregon
Postal_Code: 97330
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (541) 757-9716
Process_Step:
Process_Description: Calibration of the Sequoia LISST-100 Particle Size Analyzer.
Process_Date: 1995
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: Sequoia Scientific, Inc.
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 9725 SE 36th Street, Suite 404
City: Mercer Island
State_or_Province: Washington
Postal_Code: 98040
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (206) 230-8166
Process_Step:
Process_Description: Calibration of the WetStar in situ Fluorometer
Process_Date: 1996
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: A. Subramaniam
Contact_Organization: NOAA Science Center
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 4700 Silver Hill Road, Stop 9910
City: Washington
State_or_Province: District of Columbia
Postal_Code: 20233-9910
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (800) 789-2234

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
Indirect_Spatial_Reference: Mid Atlantic Bight, USA.

Distribution_Information:
Distributor:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: NOAA Coastal Services Center
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 2234 Hobson Avenue
City: Charleston
State_or_Province: South Carolina
Postal_Code: 29405-2413
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (843) 740-1200
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (843) 740-1224
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: csc@csc.noaa.gov
Hours_of_Service: 8AM-5PM, M-F
Resource_Description: MAR96OMP Cruise Report
Distribution_Liability: None
Custom_Order_Process:
The data can be accessed on-line at http://www.csc.noaa.gov/crs/cruises/.

Metadata_Reference_Information:
Metadata_Date: 19980930
Metadata_Review_Date: 19981026
Metadata_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: NOAA, Coastal Services Center
Contact_Position: Metadata Specialist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 2234 Hobson Avenue
City: Charleston
State_or_Province: South Carolina
Postal_Code: 29405-2413
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (843) 740-1200
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (843) 740-1224
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: crs@csc.noaa.gov
Hours_of_Service: 8AM-5PM, M-F
Metadata_Standard_Name:
Content Standard for National Biological Information Infrastructure Metadata.
Metadata_Standard_Version: December 1995
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