PICO Mooring data for the SPURS-1 N. Atlantic field campaign

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DOI	10.5067/SPUR1-MOOR2
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.
Version	1.0
Dataset Type	OPEN
Measurement	OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > TEMPERATURE PROFILES > NONE OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY > NONE
Processing Level	2
Coverage	Region: SPURS-1 N.Atlantic Salinity maximum region Northernmost Latitude: 25 degrees Southernmost Latitude: 24 degrees Westernmost Longitude: -38 degrees Easternmost Longitude: -27 degrees Time Span: 2012-Sep-14 to 2013-Sep-30
Resolution	Spatial Resolution: 0 km (Along) x 0 km (Across)
Projection	Type: Detail: Ellipsoid: WGS84
Latency	9000 hours
Swath Width	0.001 km
Sample Frequency	-
Temporal Repeat (Nominal)	1 Day
Temporal Repeat (Min)	-
Temporal Repeat (Max)	-
Platform/Sensor	Mooring Platform Name: SPURS1 WHOI Central Mooring (Mooring) Orbit Period: 0 minutes Inclination Angle: 0 degrees Ascending Node: 1970-Jan-01 00:00:00 / MMS SENSOR Name: Meteorological Measurement System (MMS) Swath Width: 0.001 km Description: Waveglider meteorological package (eg. air temperature, pressure, winds) Mooring Platform Name: SPURS1 WHOI Central Mooring (Mooring) Orbit Period: 0 minutes Inclination Angle: 0 degrees Ascending Node: 1970-Jan-01 00:00:00 / CTD SENSOR Name: Conductivity, Temperature, Depth (CTD) Swath Width: 0.001 km Description: Saildrone Teledyne CTD (2632)
Project	NASA Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study (SPURS)
Data Provider	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
Keyword(s)	PICO Mooring, trajectory profile, Salinity, Pressure, Depth, Temperature, Potential Temperature, Upper Ocean, SPURS1, North Atlantic Ocean, salinity maximum region, insitu, SPURS
Persistent ID	PODAAC-SPUR1-MOOR2

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PO.DAAC DRIVE	https://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/allData/insitu/L2/spurs1/mooring
OPENDAP	https://podaac-opendap.jpl.nasa.gov/opendap/allData/insitu/L2/spurs1/mooring/
Format (Compression)	NETCDF (NONE)
Read Software
R	https://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/allData/insitu/L2/spurs1/sw/R R Reader and calling routines
MATLAB	https://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/allData/insitu/L2/spurs1/sw/Matlab MATLAB Reader and calling routines

Project Materials
SPURS-1 Data Documentation Package	https://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/allData/insitu/L2/spurs1/docs/DataDocumentation/ Data Submission Report, Instrument Calibration Report, etc
Archived SPURS-1 Website Content	https://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/allData/insitu/L2/spurs1/docs/SpursWebsiteContent/ Archived SPURS-1 Website Content
SPURS-1 Cruise Documentation Package	https://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/allData/insitu/L2/spurs1/docs/CruiseReports/ Cruise Reports
Additional Sites
PO.DAAC SPURS Mission page	http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/spurs Field Campaign and Instrument Overview
SPURS Project Website	http://spurs.jpl.nasa.gov/ Project Website for SPURS

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SPURS PROJECT, Fred Bingham. 2015. PICO Mooring data for the SPURS-1 N. Atlantic field campaign. 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.