Conductivity, Temperature, Depth (CTD) Data and Mixed Layer Depths Measured during the U.S. JGOFS Arabian Sea Process Study

A component of U.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) is the
Arabian Sea Process Study. Eleven cruises took place aboard the R/V
Thomas G. Thompson for about sixteen months from October 1994 until
January 1996. These cruises provided seasonal coverage of the annual
monsoon and inter-monsoon cycles in the area southeast of Oman - from
where the cruises were staged. The monsoons of the Arabian Sea drive
a uniquely intense carbon cycling system, and it is the goal of JGOFS
to better understand the role of the oceans in global carbon cycling.

CTD data are given at 2 decibar pressure intervals (for the
intercalibration cruise, CTD data are given at one decibar pressure
intervals). The following data were collected: temperature,
conductivity, salinity, potential temperature, density (sigma-t), and
potential density (sigma theta).

Mixed layer depths are given in decibars and were calculated at the
change in density of 0.03 kg/m^3 and at the change in density of 0.125
kg/m^3.

Beam attenuation, backscattered light, and relative fluorescence data
are also included for most CTD casts.

The data is public domain and can be retrieved on-line at
"http://usjgofs.whoi.edu/jg/dir/jgofs/"

[This information was obtained from U.S. JGOFS website at WHOI.]