Physical data from GLOBEC Georges Bank Long-term Moored Array Component on the Northeast Peak, Feb-June 1997 (NCEI Accession 0278723)

This dataset contains physical data collected on GB NEP Mooring during deployments NEP_buoy_dep2 and NE_Peak in the North Atlantic Ocean from 1997-02-18 to 1997-06-29. These data include conductivity, depth, salinity calculated from CTD primary sensors, and water temperature. The instruments used to collect these data include Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler, CTD Sea-Bird MicroCAT 37, CTD Sea-Bird SEACAT, LI-COR LI-192 PAR Sensor, Rotronics, Sea Tech Fluorometer, Sea Tech Transmissometer, Sea-Bird SBE-3 Temperature Sensor, and Sea-Bird SBE-4 Conductivity Sensor. These data were collected by Robert C Beardsley of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Dr Jim Irish [AFFILIATION UNKNOWN] as part of the "U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank (GB)" project and "U.S. GLOBal ocean ECosystems dynamics (U.S. GLOBEC)" program. The Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO) submitted these data to NCEI on 2019-12-06.

The following is the text of the dataset description provided by BCO-DMO:

Data from mooring deployed 1997 on Northeast Peak

Dataset Description:
GLOBEC Georges Bank Long-term Moored Array Component

N.E. Peak Mooring Site
41 44' N, 66 32' W

One deployment was made in 1997 at this site, Feb 18 to Jun 29 1997. (dates reflect dates of data not deployment time)

Note: Sampling rates vary from instrument to instrument.

Data Submitted by:

Jim Irish Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole, MA 02543

phone: 508 289 2732 fax: 508 457 2195

1. The nominal position of the mooring is the designed deployment site and actual deployments varied by about 0.5 nm around this position. 2. Sensor depths are nominal designed depths. In water sensors vary around this designed depth by about 1 m, variation larger at greater distance below buoy. 3. Temperatures are listed in the IPTS68 standard, rather than IPT90. 4. Salinity conversion from conductivity was done with PSS78 5. Sensor normalization was done with pre-cruise calibrations, and checked with post-cruise calibrations. 6. Only minor editing has been done to remove spikes from records. 7. No corrections have been made to fluorometer and transmissometer data to remove biological fouling induced drift. 8. No corrections have been made to salinity for drifts due to biological fouling.

updated 06/15/05; g.heimerdinger