Nutrient sources, phytoplankton blooms, and hypoxia along the Chinese coast in the East China Sea: Insight from summer 2014

This dataset contains data collected onboard the R/V Ocean Researcher I during the summer of 2014 (August 20–31) East China Sea described in the paper: “C.-C. Chen, W.-C. Chou, and C.-C. Hung (2024). Nutrient sources, phytoplankton blooms, and hypoxia along the Chinese coast in the East China Sea: Insight from summer 2014, Marine Pollution Bulletin (accepted on July 4 2024)\"., The designed sampling stations were located throughout the East China Sea, but the sampling stations in different sampling periods varied. Conductivity, temperature, and depth (CTD) were recorded throughout the water column with a CTD instrument (SBE9/11 Plus; Sea-Bird Electronic Inc., Bellevue, WA, USA). The water samples were collected in Teflon-coated Go-Flo bottles (20 L; General Oceanics Inc., Miami, GL, USA) mounted on a Rosette assembly (Model 1015; General Oceanics Inc.). At each station, 5–10 samples were taken at depths of 2–50 m, depending on the water depth. Subsamples were drawn from the collected water for subsequent analyses, including bacterial abundance, Chl a, dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), dissolved oxygen (DO), nutrients, particulate organic carbon (POC), and total alkalinity (TA). In addition, to these analyses, onboard incubation was performed to assess plankton community respiration (plankton CR) and primary production (PP). The analyzed methods for each variab..., , \"C.-C. Chen, W.-C. Chou, and C.-C, Hung (2024). Nutrient sources, phytoplankton blooms, and hypoxia along the Chinese coast in the East China Sea: Insight from summer 2014. Marine Pollution Bulletin. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.116692\"

\"Metadata for tab \"\"Fig. 1\"\", contours of sea surface temperature and salintiy, and depth profiles of temperature and salinity along the Cbinese coast.\" Note: ND = data not available; Null = empty cell

Column Entry value Unit Explanation Remark
A Station \"1-35, 1A, 19A,K\" Sampling station for columns B-E
B Longitude Numerial oE Longitude of sampling station
C Latitude Numerial oN Latitude of sampling station
D Temp Numerical oC sea surface temperature
E Sal Numerical psu sea surface salinity
F Station \"4, 5, 6, 18, 29, 30, 19A\" Sampling station for columnes G-K
G Relative distance Numerical km The corresponding distance (= 0) starts from the most shoreward station of each transect
H Ze Numerical m euphotic depth
U Depth Numerical m sampling dept...