Citation:

PANGAEA.859953

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Abstract:

The Tara Oceans Expedition (2009-2013) sampled the world oceans on board a 36 m long schooner, collecting environmental data and organisms from viruses to planktonic metazoans for later analyses using modern sequencing and state-of-the-art imaging technologies. Tara Oceans Data are particularly suited to study the genetic, morphological and functional diversity of plankton. The present data set provides environmental context to all samples from the Tara Oceans Expedition (2009-2013), about mesoscale features related to the sampling date, time and location. Includes calculated averages of mesaurements made concurrently at the sampling location and depth, and calculated averages from climatologies (AMODIS, VGPM) and satellite products.

Related to:

Pesant, Stephane; Tara Oceans Consortium, Coordinators; et al. (in prep.): Methodological and environmental context of Tara Oceans samples. Scientific Data

Project(s):

Fondation Tara Expeditions (FondTara)

Tara Oceans Expedition (Tara_Oceans_2009-2013)

Coverage:

Median Latitude: 13.998831 * Median Longitude: -38.196532 * South-bound Latitude: -64.382200 * West-bound Longitude: -168.903100 * North-bound Latitude: 79.677700 * East-bound Longitude: 174.991700

Date/Time Start: 2009-09-05T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2013-12-06T09:30:00

Event(s):

TARA_2009-2013_EVENT_unknown * Date/Time Start: 2009-09-05T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2013-12-06T00:00:00 * Comment: This event is used to describe a few samples for which the sampling event is unknown

TARA_20090907T1530Z_001_EVENT_NET ([day] [water layer with no specific feature]) * Latitude: 44.401300 * Longitude: -9.827300 * Date/Time: 2009-09-07T15:30:00 * Campaign: (Lorient to Lisbon, Stations: TARA_001-002) * Basis: SV Tara * Method/Device: Plankton net, type=Bongo, mesh(µm)=300, mouth(m^2)=0.258319, length(m)=3 ([NET-BONGO-300])

TARA_20090907T1610Z_001_EVENT_NET ([day] [surface water layer (ENVO:00002042)]) * Latitude: 44.401300 * Longitude: -9.827300 * Date/Time: 2009-09-07T16:10:00 * Campaign: (Lorient to Lisbon, Stations: TARA_001-002) * Basis: SV Tara * Method/Device: Plankton net+sieve, type=Double, mesh(µm)=20, mouth(m^2)=0.192442, length(m)=2.5 ([NET-DOUBLE-20]+[SIEVE-180])

Parameter(s):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Principal Investigator	Method/Device	Comment
1	Sample ID	Sample ID		Pesant, Stephane		TARA_barcode#
2	Campaign of event	Campaign		Pesant, Stephane		TARA_event-datetime_station#_event-type
3	Station label	Station		Pesant, Stephane		TARA_station#
4	Event label	Event		Pesant, Stephane		TARA_event-datetime_station#_event-type
5	Date/Time of event	Date/Time		Pesant, Stephane		TARA_event-datetime_station#_event-type
6	Latitude of event	Latitude		Pesant, Stephane		TARA_event-datetime_station#_event-type
7	Longitude of event	Longitude		Pesant, Stephane		TARA_event-datetime_station#_event-type
8	Environmental feature	Env feature		Pesant, Stephane	terms registered at EnvO, the Environmental Ontology	[abbreviation] description (ENVO:ID)
9	Depth, nominal	Depth nominal		Pesant, Stephane		of the environmental feature
10	Sample method	Sample method		Pesant, Stephane		protocol-label_size-fraction
11	Marine biome	MP biome		Pesant, Stephane	Longhurst (2007)
12	Ocean and sea region	OS region		Pesant, Stephane	IHO General Sea Areas (1953) registered at www.marineregions.org	[abbreviation] full name (MRGID:ID)
13	Biogeographical province	BG province		Pesant, Stephane	Longhurst (2007) registered at marineregions.org	[abbreviation] full name (MRGID:ID)
14	Fluorescence, colored dissolved organic matter	fCDOM	ppb (QSE)	Chaffron, Samuel	calculated from AMODIS products	at the sampling location and date, expressed in ppb QSE (i.e. fluorescence emitted by 1 ppb of quinine sulfate diluted in 0.05 M sulfuric acid)
15	Radiation, photosynthetically active	PAR	mol quanta/m²/day	Chaffron, Samuel	calculated from AMODIS products	at the sampling location and date
16	Radiation, photosynthetically active	PAR	mol quanta/m²/day	Chaffron, Samuel	calculated from AMODIS products	at the sampling location for a period of 8 days around the sampling date
17	Radiation, photosynthetically active	PAR	mol quanta/m²/day	Chaffron, Samuel	calculated from AMODIS products	at the sampling location for a period of 30 days around the sampling date
18	Net primary production of carbon	NPP C	mg/m²/day	Chaffron, Samuel	calculated from VGPM products	at the sampling location for a period of 8 days around the sampling date
19	Net primary production of carbon	NPP C	mg/m²/day	Chaffron, Samuel	calculated from VGPM products	at the sampling location for a period of 30 days around the sampling date
20	Moon phase, nominal	Moon phase nominal		Audic, Stephane		at the sampling location and date
21	Moon phase, proportion	Moon phase proportion		Audic, Stephane		at the sampling location and date
22	Sunshine duration	SSD	min	Audic, Stephane		at the sampling location and date
23	Season	Season		Speich, Sabrina		at the sampling location and date
24	Season	Season		Speich, Sabrina		at the sampling location and date [early, middle or late]
25	Depth, bathymetric	Bathy depth	m	Speich, Sabrina		at the sampling location and date
26	Latitude, additional	Latitude+		Speich, Sabrina		of the closest geographic coordinate on a coast
27	Longitude, additional	Longitude+		Speich, Sabrina		of the closest geographic coordinate on a coast
28	Distance	Distance	km	Speich, Sabrina		from the closest geographic coordinate on a coast
29	Strain sub-mesoscale index	SSM index	1/s²	Speich, Sabrina		at the sampling location and date
30	Sea surface temperature gradient, horizontal	SST grad h	°C/100 km	Speich, Sabrina		at the sampling location and date
31	Geostrophic velocity, longitudinal	u	cm/s	d'Ovidio, Francesco	Calculated (d'Ovidio et al. 2010)	at the sampling location and date
32	Geostrophic velocity, latitudinal	v	cm/s	d'Ovidio, Francesco	Calculated (d'Ovidio et al. 2010)	at the sampling location and date
33	Okubo-Weiss parameter	OW		d'Ovidio, Francesco	Calculated (d'Ovidio et al. 2010)	at the sampling location and date [Values<0 indicate inside an eddy; Values>0 indicate outside an eddy]
34	Maximum Lyapunov exponent	MLE	1/day	d'Ovidio, Francesco	Calculated (d'Ovidio et al. 2010)	at the sampling location and date [Values>0.1 indicate the presence of a transport front]
35	Residence time	RT	days	d'Ovidio, Francesco	Calculated (d'Ovidio et al. 2010)	of the water mass at the sampling location and date [Values>30 indicate old water mass; Values<30 indicate young water mass]
36	Latitude, additional	Latitude+		d'Ovidio, Francesco		of the continental shelf with a bathymetry <500 m where the sampled water mass originated, based on a back-calculated geostrophic current trajectory
37	Longitude, additional	Longitude+		d'Ovidio, Francesco		of the continental shelf with a bathymetry <500 m where the sampled water mass originated, based on a back-calculated geostrophic current trajectory
38	Age	Age	days	d'Ovidio, Francesco	Calculated (d'Ovidio et al. 2010)	number of days since the sampled water mass has left a continental shelf with a bathymetry <500 m, based on a back-calculated geostrophic current trajectory
39	Latitude, additional	Latitude+		d'Ovidio, Francesco		of the geographic coordinate where the sampled water mass originated 45 days before the sampling date, based on a back-calculated geostrophic current trajectory
40	Longitude, additional	Longitude+		d'Ovidio, Francesco		of the geographic coordinate where the sampled water mass originated 45 days before the sampling date, based on a back-calculated geostrophic current trajectory

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