P&O Nedlloyd Brisbane HPLC Pigment and Ocean Colour Data December 1999 - October 2000

This record contains data collected on the P&O Nedlloyd Brisbane between December 1999 and October 2000 as part of the CSIRO Ocean Observing Experiment (COOE). This vessel circumnavigated Australia every 28 days with an additional stop in the Port of Singapore. Underway T, S and F were measured continuously throughout the period of the project. At times an observer was on board and collected samples from the outflow of the underway system for the determination of chlorophyll and carotenoid pigments, the absorption co-efficient for the dissolved component (aCDOM) of the water and salinity. In all 277 samples were collected during the 10 month period of the project. Retrieved chlorophyll a estimates from the SeaWifs ocean colour sensor were also collected and compared with the in situ data.