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.]