Properties of seawater from a Sea-Bird TSG temperature and conductivity sensor mounted on the continuous surface water sampling system during campaign TARA_20100905Z of the Tara Oceans expedition 2009-2013

The Tara Oceans Expedition (2009-2013) sampled the world oceans on board a 36 m long schooner, collecting environmental data and organisms from viruses to planktonic metazoans for later analyses using modern sequencing and state-of-the-art imaging technologies. Tara Oceans Data are particularly suited to study the genetic, morphological and functional diversity of plankton. The present data publication contains measurements from the Continuous Surface Sampling System [CSSS] made during one campaign of the Tara Oceans Expedition. Water was pumped at the front of the vessel from ~2m depth, then de-bubbled and circulated to a Sea-Bird TSG temperature and conductivity sensor. System maintenance (instrument cleaning, flushing) was done approximately once a week and in port between successive legs. All data were stamped with a GPS.

塔拉海洋科考队（Tara Oceans Expedition，2009-2013年）搭乘一艘总长36米的纵帆船开展全球海洋采样工作，收集了从病毒到浮游后生动物的各类生物体与环境数据，以供后续采用现代测序技术与顶尖成像技术开展分析研究。塔拉海洋数据集（Tara Oceans Data）尤其适用于研究浮游生物的遗传、形态与功能多样性。本次发布的数据集包含塔拉海洋科考队某次科考任务中由连续表层采样系统（Continuous Surface Sampling System，缩写CSSS）获取的实测数据。水样从船体前部约2米深度处抽取，经脱气泡处理后循环输送至Sea-Bird TSG温盐传感器。该系统约每周进行一次维护（含仪器清洁与冲洗），并在相邻航段之间的停靠港口内完成维护作业。所有数据均标注有GPS定位信息。