PICO Mooring data for the SPURS-1 N. Atlantic field campaign
(SPURS1_MOORING_PICO)| Version | 1.0 |
| Processing Level | 2 |
| Start/Stop Date | 2012-Sep-14 to 2013-Sep-30 |
| Short Name | SPURS1_MOORING_PICO |
| Description | The SPURS (Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study) project is an oceanographic process study and associated field program that aim to elucidate key mechanisms responsible for near-surface salinity variations in the oceans. The project involves two field campaigns and a series of cruises in regions of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans exhibiting salinity extremes. SPURS employs a suite of state-of-the-art in-situ sampling technologies that, combined with remotely sensed salinity fields from the Aquarius/SAC-D and SMOS satellites, provide a detailed characterization of salinity structure over a continuum of spatio-temporal scales. The SPURS-1 campaign involved a series of 5 cruises during 2012 - 2013 seeking to characterize the salinity structure and balance in a high salinity, high evaporation, and low rainfall region of the subtropical North Atlantic. It aims to resolve processes responsible for maintaining the subtropical surface salinity maximum in this region and within a 900 x 800-mile square study area centered at 25N, 38W. Two PICO moorings (PICO-1000, PICO-3000) were deployed on the Knorr cruise in September 2012 in the northern and eastern SPURS-1 domain quadrants at N24.74, W37.95 and N24.51, W37.81 respectively. The moorings contained a surface meteorological package and a "prawler", a CTD that crawls up and down the mooring line from the near-surface down to about 500m, yielding time series of salinity and temperature profile data at fixed locations. The moorings were recovered on the Endeavor-2 cruise. PICO mooring netCDF files contain georeferenced CTD profile data including salinity, temperature, potential temperature, pressure, depth, meteorological variables, GPS-Lat/Lon, and profile ID. |
| DOI | 10.5067/SPUR1-MOOR2 |
| Measurement | OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > TEMPERATURE PROFILES OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY |
| Platform/Sensor | Mooring / Platform Name: SPURS1 WHOI Central Mooring (Mooring) Orbit Period: 0.0 minutes Inclination Angle: 0.0 degrees CTD SENSOR Name: Conductivity, Temperature, Depth (CTD) Swath Width: 0.001 kilometers Description: Spacecraft angular distance from orbital plane relative to the Equator. Mooring / Platform Name: SPURS1 WHOI Central Mooring (Mooring) Orbit Period: 0.0 minutes Inclination Angle: 0.0 degrees MMS SENSOR Name: Meteorological Measurement System (MMS) Swath Width: 0.001 kilometers Description: Spacecraft angular distance from orbital plane relative to the Equator. |
| Project | NASA Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study (SPURS) |
| Data Provider | Publisher: SPURS Data Management PI, Fred Bingham Creator: SPURS PROJECT, Fred Bingham Release Place: Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography, University on North Carolina, Wilmington, NC, USA Release Date: 2015-May-11 Resource: http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/SPURS |
| Format | netCDF-4 |
| Keyword(s) | PICO Mooring, trajectory profile, Salinity, Pressure, Depth, Temperature, Potential Temperature, Upper Ocean, SPURS1, North Atlantic Ocean, salinity maximum region, insitu, SPURS |
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Resolution Spatial Resolution: 1 Meters x 1 Meters Temporal Resolution: 1 Day Coverage Region: SPURS-1 N.Atlantic Salinity maximum region North Bounding Coordinate: 25 degrees South Bounding Coordinate: 24 degrees West Bounding Coordinate: -38 degrees East Bounding Coordinate: -27 degrees Time Span: 2012-Sep-14 to 2013-Sep-30 Granule Time Span: 2012-Sep-14 to 2013-Sep-30 Projection Ellipsoid: WGS 84 |
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| Name | Long Name | Unit |
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| conductivity | Conductivity of CTD measurement | S/m |
| deltasec | Time change from start of CTD profile | seconds |
| gps_latitude | Longitude of mooring GPS measurement | degrees_north |
| gps_longitude | Longitude of mooring GPS measurement | degrees_east |
| gps_time | GPS Time on mooring | seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 0:00 |
| latitude | Latitude | degrees_north |
| longitude | Longitude | degrees_east |
| nominal_latitude | Nominal Latitude | degrees_north |
| nominal_longitude | Nominal Longitude | degrees_east |
| potential_temperature | Potential temperature of CTD measurement | degrees_C |
| pressure | Pressure of CTD measurement | decibars |
| profile | Unique identifier for each feature instance | |
| salinity | Salinity of CTD measurement | psu |
| temperature | Temperature of CTD measurement | degrees_C |
| time | Time of CTD measurement | seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 0:00 |
| z | Depth of CTD measurement | m |
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Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. Please cite the data as follows, and cite the reference papers when it is appropriate.
| Citation | SPURS PROJECT, Fred Bingham. 2015. SPURS-1 Field Campaign Pico Mooring Data Products. Ver. 1.0. PO.DAAC, CA, USA. Dataset accessed [YYYY-MM-DD] at https://doi.org/10.5067/SPUR1-MOOR2
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| Journal Reference | E.Lindstrom, F.Bryan, R.Schmitt. 2015. SPURS: Salinity Processes in the Upper-ocean Regional Study - The North Atlantic Experiment. Oceanography 28(1):14-19, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2015.01. . |
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