SeaSoar CTD observations from R/V Oceanus cruises OC340 and OC343 in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank in 1999 as part of the U.S. GLOBEC program (GB project)

<p>The seasoar is a towed, undulating vehicle which records CTD and other data. The system records SeaBird CTD data at 24 hz, and it had other sensors on the A/D channels. The seasoar gets towed along different tracklines to map out various survey areas. Each time the seasoar is deployed and recovered is one \"tow\", and each of the cruises have a number of tows.</p>

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PI: Jack Barth (OSU), Dave Hebert (URI)
dataset: SeaSoar CTD data
project/cruise: R/V Oceanus Cruise 340 and 343 to Georges Bank
ship: Oceanus

Cruise details given in:

Hebert, D., J. A. Barth, D. Ullman, S. Fontana and W. Ostrom,
1999. Cruise Report: R/V Oceanus Cruise 340 to Georges Bank, 28 March
to 12 April 1999.
US GLOBEC NW Atlantic/Georges Bank Study, 37 pp.

Methods are described in:

SeaSoar CTD Observations During the Coastal Mixing and Optics Experiment:
R/V Endeavor Cruises from 14-Aug to 1-Sep 1996 and 25-Apr to 15-May 1997.
R. O'Malley, J.A. Barth, A. Erofeev, J. Fleischbein, P.M. Kosro and
S.D. Pierce. College of Oceanic &amp; Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State
University, Corvallis. Reference 98-1, Data Report 168, October 1998.

Hebert, D., J. A. Barth, D. Ullman and S. Fontana,
1999. Cruise Report: R/V Oceanus Cruise 343 to Georges Bank, 14 June
to 1 July 1999.
US GLOBEC NW Atlantic/Georges Bank Study, 40 pp.

These are flat files, with data every 1-sec for each tow. The tows are
numbered sequentialy (tow1, tow2, etc).

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<p><strong>Notes: </strong><br />
1. There are two fields for different fluorometers: flvolt (aka FL-1) is from a WetLabs Wetstar fluorometer, while flvolt_2 (aka FL-2) is from a WetLabs FlashPAK fluorometer.</p>

<p>2. Original field name is shown in parenthesis in the \"Description\" column.</p>

<p>3. There were some problems in the data fields whenever the lat/lon were interpolated for lack of GPS observations. The OC343 data files were replaced on-line with the reprocessed files October 16, 2000.</p>

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