An archive of net community production estimates derived from autonomous profiler observations at Ocean Station Papa

This dataset contains an archive of marine net community production estimates for Ocean Station Papa, derived using autonomous profilers, including BGC-Argo floats and sea gliders. The archive contains data from the following original publications:

Haskell, W. Z., Fassbender, A. J., Long, J. S., and Plant, J. N.: Annual Net Community Production of Particulate and Dissolved Organic Carbon From a Decade of Biogeochemical Profiling Float Observations in the Northeast Pacific, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 34, 1–22, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GB006599, 2020.

Huang, Y., Fassbender, A. J., Long, J. S., Johannessen, S., and Bernardi Bif, M.: Partitioning the Export of Distinct Biogenic Carbon Pools in the Northeast Pacific Ocean Using a Biogeochemical Profiling Float, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 36, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021gb007178, 2022.

Pelland, N. A., Eriksen, C. C., Emerson, S. R., and Cronin, M. F.: Seaglider Surveys at Ocean Station Papa: Oxygen Kinematics and Upper-Ocean Metabolism, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 123, 6408–6427, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JC014091, 2018.

Plant, J. N., Johnson, K. S., Sakamoto, C. M., Jannasch, H. W., Coletti, L. J., Riser, S. C., and Swift, D. D.: Net community production at Ocean Station Papa observed with nitrate and oxygen sensors on profiling floats, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 30, 859–879, https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GB005349, 2016.

Yang, B., Emerson, S. R., and Bushinsky, S. M.: Annual net community production in the subtropical Pacific Ocean from in-situ oxygen measurements on profiling floats, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 31, 728–744, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GB005545, 2017.

Dataset description:

Separate Matlab (.mat) and NetCDF (.nc) files are provided for each original publication dataset. At minimum, each contains time (recorded as absolute days since 01 Jan 2000, 00:00:00), and time-explicit depth-integrated NCP. Additional fields include depth-resolved NCP, and water column depth (Plant et al., 2016; Pelland et al., 2018).

Note that the Haskell et al. (2020) dataset (haskell20.mat, haskell20.nc) contains climatological NCP estimates. Accordingly, the time field represents the Year-day only. 

All NCP units are recorded in units of mmol O2/m2/d (depth-integrated) or mmol O2/m3/d (depth-resolved).

Additional information on each dataset is contained within the data files. Additional processing information is contained in Izett et al. (under review).

The data were compiled in: 

Izett, R. W., Fennel, K., Stoer, A. C., and Nicholson, D. P. Reviews and syntheses: Expanding the global coverage of gross primary production and net community production measurements using BGC-Argo floats, Submitted to Biogeosciences. 2023.

Please cite as:

Izett, R., Haskell, W., Huang, Y., Pelland, N., Plant, J., and Yang, B. 2023. An archive of net community production estimates derived from autonomous profiler observations at Ocean Station Papa. Database. Zenodo. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7667521. Accessed on DATE.