WCR_biom_integ
Warm Core Rings MOCNESS tows
Data 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	
biomass_depth_50	depth above which half of biomass (50%) resides (m)	
biomass_integr_1000m	integrated biomass of top 1000m (cc/m2)	
biomass_integr_200m	integrated biomass of top 200m (cc/m2)	
cruise	ship name and cruise number	
day_local	local day, e.g. 28	
depth_10deg	10-degree isotherm depth (m)	
dist_RC	distance to ring center (km)	
lat	latitude (south in negative), in decimal degrees	
lon	longitude (west is negative), in decimal degrees	
month_local	local month, e.g. 11	
region	geographic area or proximity to a warm core ring	
time_local	local time, using 2400 clock format	
tow	MOCNESS tow number	
year	year, e.g. 1975	

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.