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<Entry_ID>PANGAEA_993957</Entry_ID>
<Entry_Title>Physical oceanography during RV MARIA S. MERIAN cruise MSM140</Entry_Title>
<Data_Set_Citation>
<Dataset_Creator>Michels, Emil; Maggiulli, Michael; Klaucke, Ingo</Dataset_Creator>
<Dataset_Title>Physical oceanography during RV MARIA S. MERIAN cruise MSM140</Dataset_Title>
<Dataset_Release_Date>2026-05-11</Dataset_Release_Date>
<Dataset_Publisher>PANGAEA</Dataset_Publisher>
<Data_Presentation_Form>Dataset</Data_Presentation_Form>
<Online_Resource>https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.993957</Online_Resource>
</Data_Set_Citation>
<Personnel>
<Role>Investigator</Role>
<First_Name>Emil</First_Name>
<Last_Name>Michels</Last_Name>
<Email>emil.michels@io-warnemuende.de</Email>
</Personnel>
<Discipline>
<Discipline_Name>Earth Science</Discipline_Name>
</Discipline>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Event label</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>DATE/TIME</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>LATITUDE</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>LONGITUDE</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Pressure, water</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Quality flag, water pressure</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>DEPTH, water</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Temperature, water</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Quality flag, water temperature</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Salinity</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Quality flag, salinity</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Conductivity</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Quality flag, conductivity</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Oxygen</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Oxygen</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Oxygen, dissolved</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Quality flag, oxygen</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Chlorophyll a</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Turbidity (Nephelometric turbidity unit)</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Height above sea floor/altitude</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Density, sigma-theta (0)</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<ISO_Topic_Category>geoscientificInformation</ISO_Topic_Category>
<Keyword>CTD</Keyword>
<Keyword>CTD/Rosette</Keyword>
<Keyword>MSM140</Keyword>
<Keyword>MSM140_89-1</Keyword>
<Sensor_Name>
<Long_Name>Conductivity-Temperature-Depth- profiler (CTD), Sea-Bird Scientific, SBE 911plus</Long_Name>
</Sensor_Name>
<Sensor_Name>
<Long_Name>Seadatanet flag: Data quality control procedures according to SeaDataNet (2010)</Long_Name>
</Sensor_Name>
<Sensor_Name>
<Long_Name>CTD, Sea-Bird, SBE 911plus; calculated using software package ctdam 1.4.1</Long_Name>
</Sensor_Name>
<Sensor_Name>
<Long_Name>CTD, Sea-Bird, SBE 911plus, measured with Temperature sensor, Sea-Bird, SBE3</Long_Name>
</Sensor_Name>
<Sensor_Name>
<Long_Name>CTD, Sea-Bird, SBE 911plus; measured with conductivity sensor, SEA-BIRD SBE 4</Long_Name>
</Sensor_Name>
<Sensor_Name>
<Long_Name>CTD, Sea-Bird, SBE 911plus; measured with Dissolved oxygen sensor, Sea-Bird, SBE 43</Long_Name>
</Sensor_Name>
<Sensor_Name>
<Long_Name>CTD, Sea-Bird, SBE 911plus; measured with Optical backscatter sensor (OBS), WET Labs ECO FLNTU</Long_Name>
</Sensor_Name>
<Sensor_Name>
<Long_Name>CTD, Sea-Bird, SBE 911plus; calculated according to Fofonoff and Millard (1983; UNESCO Technical Papers in Marine Science 44)</Long_Name>
</Sensor_Name>
<Source_Name>
<Long_Name>Maria S. Merian</Long_Name>
</Source_Name>
<Temporal_Coverage>
<Start_Date>2025-09-27</Start_Date>
<Stop_Date>2025-09-27</Stop_Date>
</Temporal_Coverage>
<Data_Set_Progress>Complete</Data_Set_Progress>
<Spatial_Coverage>
<Southernmost_Latitude>67.03998</Southernmost_Latitude>
<Northernmost_Latitude>67.04012</Northernmost_Latitude>
<Westernmost_Longitude>2.22128</Westernmost_Longitude>
<Easternmost_Longitude>2.22163</Easternmost_Longitude>
<Minimum_Depth>13.0 m (DEPTH, water)</Minimum_Depth>
<Maximum_Depth>1352.0 m (DEPTH, water)</Maximum_Depth>
</Spatial_Coverage>
<Project>
<Short_Name>DAM_Underway</Short_Name>
<Long_Name>DAM Underway Research Data</Long_Name>
</Project>
<Project>
<Short_Name>DataHub</Short_Name>
<Long_Name>DataHub Earth and Environment of the Helmholtz Association</Long_Name>
</Project>
<Access_Constraints>unrestricted</Access_Constraints>
<Use_Constraints>CC-BY-4.0: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International</Use_Constraints>
<Data_Set_Language>English</Data_Set_Language>
<Data_Center>
<Data_Center_Name>
<Short_Name>PANGAEA</Short_Name>
<Long_Name>Data Publisher for Earth &amp; Environmental Science</Long_Name>
</Data_Center_Name>
<Data_Center_URL>https://www.pangaea.de/</Data_Center_URL>
<Personnel>
<Role>Data Center Contact</Role>
<First_Name>Michael</First_Name>
<Last_Name>Diepenbroek</Last_Name>
<Email>info@pangaea.de</Email>
<Contact_Address>
<Address>Leobener Str.</Address>
<City>Bremen</City>
<Province_or_State>Bremen</Province_or_State>
<Postal_Code>28359</Postal_Code>
<Country>Germany</Country>
</Contact_Address>
</Personnel>
</Data_Center>
<Distribution>
<Distribution_Media>online</Distribution_Media>
<Distribution_Size>35204 data points</Distribution_Size>
<Distribution_Format>text/tab-separated-values</Distribution_Format>
</Distribution>
<Reference>Michels, Emil (2026): Physical oceanography during RV MARIA S. MERIAN cruise MSM140 - Data Processing Report. Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde, https://download.pangaea.de/reference/139753/attachments/MSM140_processing_report.pdf</Reference>
<Summary>Physical oceanography data was acquired by a ship-based Seabird SBE911plus CTD-Rosette system onboard RV MARIA S. MERIAN during research cruise MSM140. The CTD system is comprised of a Seabird SBE911plus including dual respectively redundant sensor and pump packages. The SBE11plus Deck Unit remains on board in a laboratory and supplies on one hand power to the SBE9plus underwater unit, on the other hand data telemetry between the SBE9plus and a measurement PC. The SBE9plus underwater unit itself holds a pressure sensor and is interfacing with dual SBE3 temperature, SBE4 conductivity and SBE43 oxygen sensors, as well as two SBE5 pumps to provide a pumped water supply past each sensor. ** For all details see the full metadata description at "https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.993957"!</Summary>
<Related_URL>
<URL>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_6709</URL>
<Description>LATITUDE</Description>
</Related_URL>
<Related_URL>
<URL>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_6709</URL>
<Description>LONGITUDE</Description>
</Related_URL>
<Related_URL>
<URL>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601</URL>
<Description>DATE/TIME</Description>
</Related_URL>
<Related_URL>
<URL>http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0005/000598/059832eb.pdf</URL>
<Description>CTD, Sea-Bird, SBE 911plus; calculated according to Fofonoff and Millard (1983; UNESCO Technical Papers in Marine Science 44)</Description>
</Related_URL>
<Related_URL>
<URL>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_conductivity</URL>
<Description>Conductivity</Description>
</Related_URL>
<Related_URL>
<URL>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RV_Maria_S._Merian</URL>
<Description>Maria S. Merian</Description>
</Related_URL>
<Related_URL>
<URL>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbidity</URL>
<Description>Turbidity (Nephelometric turbidity unit)</Description>
</Related_URL>
<Related_URL>
<URL>https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.32187.d001</URL>
<Description>Chlorophyll a</Description>
</Related_URL>
<Related_URL>
<URL>https://helmholtz.software/projects/datahub</URL>
<Description>DataHub</Description>
</Related_URL>
<Related_URL>
<URL>https://pypi.org/project/ctdam/</URL>
<Description>CTD, Sea-Bird, SBE 911plus; calculated using software package ctdam 1.4.1</Description>
</Related_URL>
<Related_URL>
<URL>https://www.allianz-meeresforschung.de/kernbereiche/datenmanagement-und-digitalisierung#unterwegs</URL>
<Description>DAM_Underway</Description>
</Related_URL>
<Related_URL>
<URL>https://www.seadatanet.org/content/download/596/file/SeaDataNet_QC_procedures_V2_%28May_2010%29.pdf</URL>
<Description>Seadatanet flag: Data quality control procedures according to SeaDataNet (2010)</Description>
</Related_URL>
<Metadata_Name>DIF</Metadata_Name>
<Metadata_Version>9.4</Metadata_Version>
<DIF_Creation_Date>2026-05-11</DIF_Creation_Date>
<Last_DIF_Revision_Date>2026-06-09</Last_DIF_Revision_Date>
</DIF>
