Underway measurements metadata form
- Investigator:
- Name: Wanninkhof, Dr. Rik H.
- Organization: NOAA/AOML
- Address:
4301 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, Florida 33149 - Phone: (305)361-4379
- Email: Rik.Wanninkhof@noaa.gov
- Dataset Info:
- Dataset ID: AOML_Explorer
- Submission Dates:
- Initial Submission: 2008/08/01
- Revised Submission: 2008/08/01
- Cruise Info:
- Experiment:
- Experiment Name: Explorer
- Cruise:
- Cruise ID: EX0701W-EX0747C9
- Section: East, West, North, Canada
- Geographical Coverage:
- Geographical Region:
Weekly cruises to Bermuda, Canada or through the Caribbean departing Miami, Florida or Bayonne, New Jersey - Bounds:
- Westernmost Longitude: -88
Degrees, Minutes, Seconds: E - Easternmost Longitude: -60
Degrees, Minutes, Seconds: E - Northernmost Latitude: 46
Degrees, Minutes, Seconds: N - Southernmost Latitude: 13
Degrees, Minutes, Seconds: N
- Temporal Coverage:
- Start Date: 2007/01/07
- End Date: 2007/12/01
- Ports of Call:
Miami, Florida
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Philipsburg, St. Maarten
Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas
Nassau, Bahamas
Labadee, Haiti
Ocho Rios, Jamaica
Belize City, Belize
Costa Maya, Mexico
Cozumel, Mexico
George Town, Grand Cayman
Bayonne, New Jersey
Kings Wharf, Bermuda
Labadee, Haiti
Casa de Campo, Dominican Republic
New London, Connecticut
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Saint John, New Brunswick
Bar Harbor, Maine
Portland, Maine
Boston, Massachusetts
St. John, Antigua
Roseau, Dominica
Bridgetown, Barbados
Basseterre, St. Kitts
- Vessel:
- Vessel Name: MS Explorer of the Seas
- Vessel ID: RCCL Explorer
- Country: USA
- Vessel Owner: Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines
- Variables Info:
- Variable:
- Variable Name: JD_GMT
- Description of Variable: decimal year day
- Method Description:
- Equilibrator Design:
- Equilibrator type: ColePalmer filter housing
- Equilibrator volume:1.3
- Water_Flow_Rate: 1.5
- Headspace_Gas_Flow_Rate:80
- Vented: Yes
- Measurement Method: Infrared absorption of dry gas
- Manufacturer of Calibration Gas: NOAA/ESRL - Boulder, Colorado
- C02 Sensors:
- Manufacturer: LI-COR
- Model: 6252
- Environmental Control:
Air-conditioned laboratory - Resolution: Better than 0.1 ppm
- Uncertainty: xCO2 measurements are accurate to 0.1 ppm, fCO2 measurements are accurate to 0.2 ppm.
- Calibration:
The standard gases are directly traceable to the WMO scale. The uncertainty of the standards, based on pre and post cruise calibrations, is less than 0.5 ppm.
- Other sensors:
- Manufacturer:
- Model:
- Resolution:
- Calibration:
- Method References:
DOE (1994). Handbook of methods for the analysis of the various parameters of the carbon dioxide system in sea water; version 2. DOE.
Feely, R. A., R. Wanninkhof, H. B. Milburn, C. E. Cosca, M. Stapp and P. P. Murphy (1998). A new automated underway system for making high precision pCO2 measurements onboard research ships. Analytica Chim. Acta 377: 185-191.
Ho, D. T., R. Wanninkhof, J. Masters, R. A. Feely and C. E. Cosca (1997). Measurement of underway fCO2 in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific on NOAA ships BALDRIGE and DISCOVERER, NOAA data report ERL AOML-30, 52 pp., NTIS Springfield.
Wanninkhof, R. and K. Thoning (1993). Measurement of fugacity of CO2 in surface water using continuous and discrete sampling methods. Mar. Chem. 44(2-4): 189-205.
Weiss, R. F. (1970). The solubility of nitrogen, oxygen and argon in water and seawater. Deep-Sea Research 17: 721-735.
Weiss, R. F. (1974). Carbon dioxide in water and seawater: the solubility of a non-ideal gas. Mar. Chem. 2: 203-215.
- Additional Information:
For more information about this dataset see master and individual cruise readme files at:
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/ocd/gcc/explorer_data2007_q1.php - Data Set References:
- Citation:
These data are made freely available to the public and the scientific community in the belief that their wide dissemination will lead to greater understanding and new scientific insights. The availability of these data does not constitute publication of the data. We rely on the ethics and integrity of the user to assure that AOML receives fair credit for our work. Please send manuscripts using this data to AOML for review before they are submitted for publication so we can insure that the quality and limitations of the data are accurately represented.
- Data Set Link:
- URL: http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/ocd/gcc/explorer_data2007_q1.php
- Label: AOML CO2 group underway pCO2 data for the Explorer of the Seas
- Link Note: