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, GPS-Lat/Lon, and profile ID. |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Dataset Type | OPEN |
| Measurement | Oceans > Salinity/Density > Salinity > None Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Temperature Profiles > 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: WGS84 Detail: Ellipsoid: |
| Latency | 9000 hours |
| Swath Width | 0.001 km |
| Sample Frequency | - |
| Temporal Repeat (Nominal) | 1 Day |
| Temporal Repeat (Min) | - |
| Temporal Repeat (Max) | - |
| Platform/Sensor | SPURS1_Mooring / Platform Name: Moorings for SPURS-I (SPURS1_Mooring) Orbit Period: 1 minutes Inclination Angle: 180 degrees Ascending Node: 1970-Jan-01 00:00:00 SPURS_CTD_MOORING SENSOR Name: SPURS mooring CTD (eg.Seabird SBE 37-SM CTD) (SPURS_CTD_MOORING) Swath Width: 0.001 km Description: SPURS mooring CTD (eg.Seabird SBE 37-SM CTD) |
| 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 |
Questions related to this dataset? Contact podaac@podaac.jpl.nasa.gov
| Direct Access | |
| FTP | ftp://podaac-ftp.jpl.nasa.gov/allData/insitu/L2/spurs1/mooring |
| OPENDAP | https://podaac-opendap.jpl.nasa.gov/opendap/allData/insitu/L2/spurs1/mooring/ |
| Format (Compression) | NETCDF (NONE) |
| Read Software | |
| MATLAB | ftp://podaac-ftp.jpl.nasa.gov/allData/insitu/L2/spurs1/sw/Matlab MATLAB Reader and calling routines |
| R | ftp://podaac-ftp.jpl.nasa.gov/allData/insitu/L2/spurs1/sw/R R Reader and calling routines |
| Project Materials | |
| SPURS-1 Cruise Documentation Package | ftp://podaac-ftp.jpl.nasa.gov/allData/insitu/L2/spurs1/docs/CruiseReports/ Cruise Reports |
| Archived SPURS-1 Website Content | ftp://podaac-ftp.jpl.nasa.gov/allData/insitu/L2/spurs1/docs/SpursWebsiteContent/ Archived SPURS-1 Website Content |
| SPURS-1 Data Documentation Package | ftp://podaac-ftp.jpl.nasa.gov/allData/insitu/L2/spurs1/docs/DataDocumentation/ Data Submission Report, Instrument Calibration Report, etc |
| 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 |
| Citation | 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 http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/SPUR1-MOOR2.
For more information see Data Citations and Acknowledgments.
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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. |
