WCR_biomass 
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	
C_mM_kg	carbon, in micromoles per kilogram	
C_mM_m2	integrated carbon in a net, in micromoles per square meter	
cruise	ship name and cruise number	
cum_pcnt	cumulative percent of sample from surface to depth of a net, max=1	
depth_int	the thickness of water sampled by a net (m) 	
depth_low	lower depth where net is fished, in meters	
depth_mid	mid-depth of water column sampled by a net (m)	
disp_vol	displacement volume of net sample, in cubic centimeters	
disp_vol_cm3	displacement volume of net sample, in cubic centimeters per 1000m3. [1000*disp_vol/*vol_filt]	
integ_bio	integrated biomass of a net, in cc/m2 	
net	net number, 0-8 for MOC-1 and 0-19 for MOC-D1	
tow	MOCNESS tow number	
vol_filt	volume of water filtered through a net	
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.