Nitrate d15N and d18O from Niskin bottle samples collected on Leg 2 (Hilo, HI to Papeete, French Polynesia) of the US GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Transect (PMT) cruise (GP15, RR1815) on R/V Roger Revelle from October to November 2018

These data include nitrate δ15N and δ18O along US GEOTRACES GP15, a meridional transect at ~152°W in the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific hosts significant rates of all the fluxes that are relevant to the global N cycle: the N budget fluxes (those that either generate or consume fixed N; N2 fixation and denitrification) as well as the N fluxes from the internal N cycle (those that generate or consume nitrate but leave the fixed N pool unaltered; nitrate regeneration and assimilation). The nitrate δ15N and δ18O provide a useful tool to separate and possibly quantify the overlapping impacts of all these co-occurring processes.

GP15 was a 60-day research cruise that took place in 2018 along a transect form Alaska to Tahiti at 152° W on board of the R/V Revelle. The cruise was completed in two legs (RR1814 and RR1815), which started on the 18th of September and on the 24th of October 2018, respectively. This dataset includes data from Leg 2 (RR1815). Leg 1 data (RR1814) are provided in a separate, related dataset.