SCOPE-Falkor - FK180310 - Chlorophyll and Scattering Profiles

These Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology (SCOPE) data products were produced by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa with support from the Simons Foundation. The 2018 SCOPE-Falkor Cruise north of Oahu, Hawaii, built on the observations of the SCOPE expeditions conducted during 2015-2017 by looking at diel variability associated with the deep chlorophyll maximum and quantifying the impact of mesoscale eddies on the ecology and functioning of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. A unique aspect to the expedition was the use of Long-Range Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (LRAUVs) which were integrated into the science operations in conjunction with other oceanographic equipment. All data presented here are from an optics package equipped with a Sea-bird 37, a Wet-labs ECO FL3, and a Wet-Labs BBFL2 sensor, and are corrected to a dark calibration. Yo-yo profiles were taken, which are broken up in post-processing into casts with the same timestamp. CDOM data should be treated with caution as the ECO FL3 sensor has dark calibrations lower than factory dev file, so a positive shift is present that creates a substantial offset from the CDOM values reported by the BBFL2 sensor. The volume scattering is converted to particle backscattering coefficient following Boss and Pegau (2001). The timestamp is in UTC.