Warm Core Rings MOCNESS tows

Data is from "Zooplankton biomass and related MOCNESS data for tows taken on the 1981-82 Warm-Core Rings cruises".  WHOI technical report #WHOI-85-3 by Valerie A. Barber and Peter H. Wiebe.  January 1985.  164 pp.

Taken during 6 cruises in the N. Atlantic from Sept. 1981 to Oct. 1982.
Samples were collected from the N. Atlantic Slope Water, Sargasso Sea, Gulf Stream, and from 3 different warm-core rings: 81D, 82B, 82H.
		
variable	description	
cruise	ship name and cruise number	
depth_10deg	10degree isotherm depth (m)	
dist_RC	distance to ring center (km)	
year	 year, e.g. 1975	
day_local	local day, e.g. 28	
month_local	local month, e.g. 11	
time_local	local time, using 2400 clock format	
lat	latitude (south in negative), in decimal degrees	
lon	longitude (west is negative), in decimal degrees	
region	geographic area or proximity to a warm core ring	
tow	MOCNESS tow number	
net	net number, 0-8 for MOC-1 and 0-19 for MOC-D1	
depth_interval	the thickness of water sampled by a net (m)	
mid_depth	mid-depth of water column sampled by a net (m)	
depth_low	lower depth where net is fished, in meters	
vol_filt	volume of water filtered through a net	
disp_vol	displacement volume of net sample, in cubic centimeters	
CC/1000M3	displacement volume of net sample, in cubic centimeters per 1000m3. [1000*disp_vol/*vol_filt]	
CUM%	cumulative percent of sample from surface to depth of a net, max=1	
INTBIO	integrated biomass of a net, in cc/m2	
C(UM/KG)	carbon, in micromoles per kilogram	
C(MM/M2)	integrated carbon in a net, in micromoles per square meter	
temp_mean	mean temperature (C) for a net	
temp_min	minimum temperature (C) for a net	
temp_max	maximum temperature (C) for a net	
sal_mean	mean salinity (ppt) for a net	
sal_min	minimum salinity (ppt) for a net	
sal_max	maximum salinity (ppt) for a net	
biomass_depth_50%	depth above which half of biomass resides (m)
biomass_integr_200m	integrated biomass of top 200m (cc/m2)
biomass_integr_1000m	integrated biomass of top 1000m (cc/m2)
