Data sources

Data Sources

• Broad-scale cruise
• Process Cruise
• Moorings
• Drifters
• Satellite
• Aircraft
• Modeling

Instruments

• CTD (MKV/MKIII/SeaBird)
• Rosette (1.4 & 5 liter bottles
• 1x1 meter MOCNESS (.150 & .335 millimeter mesh)
• 10x10 meter MOCNESS (3 mm mesh)
• 60 cm Bongo (335 millimeter mesh)
• Acoustics 120/420 khz
• Video Planton Recorder
• ADCP (Ship and Mooring)
• Drifters (GPS/ARGOS)
• Turbulence
• MET Package
• Mooring
• Current Meters
• C/T
• ADCP
• Infra-red radiometer (satellite)
• Air-bourne laser (fluorescence)

Sensors

• Sea
• Conductivity
• Temperature
• Pressure
• Fluorescence
• Transmittance
• Acoustics (sv & TS)
• Light (PAR)
• Video
• Air
• Temperature
• Humidity
• Light (PAR)
• Wind Speed
• Wind Direction
• Precipitation
• Space
• AVHRR

Derived Measurements

• Plankton Biomass
• Taxonomic Composition/Size Distribution
• Species
  • Counts
  • Size
  • Stage
  • Status
  • RNA/DNA
  • Cell growth potential (turn-over rate)
  • Gut fullness
  • Gut content
  • Gut fluorescence
  • Lipd content/structure
  • Genetics
  • Rates
  • Feeding
  • Egg production
  • Growth
  • Molting rate
  • Behavior
  • Orientation
  • Spacial relationships
• Density
• Currents
• Stratification
• Heat Flux (Air/Sea Exchange)
• Turbulence (Energy Dissipation)
• Nutrients (N, P Si)
• Oxygen 18/Oxygen 16
• Chlorophyll
• Phytoplankton/Microzooplankton