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Title: Carbon dioxide, temperature, salinity, and other variables collected via surface underway survey from Volunteer Observing Ship EXPLORER OF THE SEAS in the Caribbean Sea from 2003-02-09 to 2003-12-31 (NODC Accession 0081032)
Abstract: VOS Explorer of the Seas Lines
Date received: 20111102
Start date: 20030209
End date: 20031231
Seanames: Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, North Atlantic Ocean
West boundary: -86.98
East boundary: -63.06
North boundary: 26.34
South boundary: 17.71
Observation types: surface underway
Instrument types: carbon dioxide (CO2) gas analyzer, showerhead equilibrator, surface seawater intake
Datatypes: AIR-SEA DIFFERENCE - PARTIAL PRESSURE (OR FUGACITY) OF CARBON DIOXIDE, BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, CARBON DIOXIDE - SEA, Partial pressure (or fugacity) of carbon dioxide - atmosphere, SALINITY, TEMPERATURE - WATER, WIND DIRECTION, WIND SPEED
Submitter: Kozyr, Alex
Submitting institution: Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
Collecting institutions: US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Contributing projects:
Platforms: EXPLORER OF THE SEAS (33KF)
Number of observations:
Supplementary information: Global Volunteer Observing Ship (VOS) Program data from Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

Citation:
Wanninkhof, R., B. Huss, R. Castle. 2007. Sea Surface and Atmospheric fCO2 data in the Caribbean during the VOS line 2003-2007 cruises onboard the cruise ship Explorer of the Seas. http://cdiac.ornl.gov/ftp/oceans/VOS_Explorer_line/. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. doi: 10.3334/CDIAC/otg.VOS_Explorer_line_2003-2007

Investigators:
Wanninkhof, Rik, NOAA/AOML

The data set can be accessed at CDIAC:
http://cdiac.ornl.gov/oceans/VOS_Program/explorer.html
VOS Explorer of the Seas Lines
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Cruise ID: EX0304E - EX0350E
Dataset ID: VOS Explorer of the Seas Lines
Availability date:
Metadata version: 3
Keydate: 2011-11-11 13:48:35+00
Editdate: 2011-12-07 18:57:03+00