Surface Water and Atmospheric Underway Carbon Data Obtained During the World Ocean Circulation Experiment Indian Ocean Survey Cruises (R/V Knorr, December 1994-January 1996)

NDP-064 (1997)

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Contributed by
Christopher L. Sabine and Robert M. Key
Department of Geosciences
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A.

Prepared by Alexander Kozyr¹and Linda Allison
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A.

¹Energy, Environment, and Resources Center
The University of Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.A.

Environmental Sciences Division
Publication No. 4701

Date Published: November 1997

Prepared for the
Environmental Sciences Division
Office of Biological and Environmental Research
U.S. Department of Energy
Budget Activity Numbers KP 12 04 01 0 and KP 12 02 03 0

Prepared by the
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY
Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6290
managed by
LOCKHEED MARTIN ENERGY RESEARCH CORP.
for the
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
under contract DE-AC05-96OR22464

Abstract

Contents

PART 1: OVERVIEW

• Introduction
• Measurements, Instrumentation, and Calibrations
  • Standard Gases
  • Underway Sea Surface Temperature, Salinity, and Position
  • Underway CO₂ System Parameters
• Quality Control
• Results
• Data Checks and Processing Performed by CDIAC
• Acknowledgements
• References

PART 2: CONTENT AND FORMAT OF DATA FILES

• File Descriptions
  • ndp064.txt (File 1)
  • xco2airdat.for (File 2)
  • xco2waterdat.for (File 3)
  • *air.dat files
  • *water.dat files

APPENDIX A: Reprint of Pertinent Literature: "A New Instrument Design for Continuous Determination of Oceanic pCO₂"

APPENDIX B: Notations from at-sea notebooks, e-mail, correspondence during the cruise, and the post-cruise analysis of the data