Suspended particulate matter along US GEOTRACES North Atlantic Transect from the R/V Knorr KN199-04 cruise in the subtropical northern Atlantic Ocean in 2010 (U.S. GEOTRACES NAT project)

<p>Suspended particulate matter (SPM) on samples collected during Geotraces 2010 (KN199-04).</p>

<p>The following metadata was extracted from the original file header:</p>

<p>/begin_header<br />
/investigators=Joaquin_Chaves<br />
/affiliations=NASA<br />
/contact=[e-mail]<br />
/experiment=GEOTRACES<br />
/cruise=kn199-4<br />
/station=NA<br />
/data_file_name=kn199-4_SPM_NCODMO.csv<br />
/documents=SPM_protocols.pdf<br />
/calibration_files=missing_calibration.txt<br />
/data_type=bottle<br />
/data_status=final<br />
/start_date=20101017<br />
/end_date=20101102<br />
/start_time=11:20:00[GMT]<br />
/end_time=17:10:00[GMT]<br />
/north_latitude=38.3296[DEG]<br />
/south_latitude=17.3581[DEG]M<br />
/east_longitude=-9.6604[DEG]<br />
/west_longitude=-24.4962[DEG]<br />
/water_depth=-999<br />
/measurement_depth=-999<br />
/secchi_depth=-999<br />
/wind_speed=-999<br />
/cloud_percent=-999<br />
/wave_height=-999<br />
!<br />
! The field \"replicates\" indicates how many replicate samples were<br />
! averaged to produce the reported value</p>

<p><strong>NOTE:&nbsp; The following header line was incorrect and subsequently corrected by BCO-DMO &nbsp;&nbsp;</strong> &nbsp;<br />
! sample_no==-999 were collected with NASA's surface peristaltic pump</p>

<p><br />
! quality = 1 good; 2 = medium; 3 = poor<br />
!<br />
/missing=-999<br />
/delimiter=comma</p>