California Current Ecosystem LTER

CCE Biological and Physical Water Column Properties - Annual & Cruise Averages

Title
Cruise measurements (temperature, salinity, density, chlorophyll, C14, phosphate, silicate, nitrate, nitrite) collected from CTD casts aboard CalCOFI cruises in the California Current, and averaged annually and by cruise, from 1984 - 2019 (updated periodically).

Abstract
Water column bottle sample data averaged across up to 46 standard stations (inshore and offshore) per cruise and then averaged over a varying number of cruises in any one year to give an annual average.

Keywords
measurements, temperature, chlorophyll, nitrate, CTD, hydrography, water column

LTER Data System Record
http://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/bce9fe91713f06d66aec66a161b41f5d
Projects
California Current Ecosystem LTER
CalCOFI - Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Creators
Goericke, Ralf (rgoericke@ucsd.edu)

Contact
CCE LTER Information Manager (ccelter.im@gmail.com)

Data

table Annual Averages
Data table containing annual averages and anomalies from CalCOFI cruises in the California Current.
Rows: 33
Columns: 25
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table Cruise averages
Data table containing cruise averages and anomalies from CalCOFI cruise in the California Current.
Rows: 141
Columns: 25
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Methods


General Methods
Annual averages of properties were calculated stepwise: First mixed layer (ML) averages of properties were calculated for each station by averaging property values for all samples collected in the ML. CalCOFI cruise averages were calculated by averaging property values across all 66 standard CalCOFI stations (http://www.calcofi.org/field-work/station-info.html). Annual averages were calculated by averaging properties of the winter, spring, summer and fall CalCOFI cruises for each year. The mixed layer depth is calculated using a density criterion and set either to 12 m or to the half-way point between the two sampling depths where the sigma-theta gradient first reaches values larger than 0.002 per m, whichever is larger. The nitracline depth is defined as the depth where concentrations of nitrate reach values of 1 μM, calculated from measurements at discrete depths using linear interpolation.

Protocols


CCE LTER / CalCOFI Methods Manual
http://cce.lternet.edu/data/methods-manual

Files


Plots (4.76MB)
CalCOFI Mixed Layer Properties Plots for 1984 - 2016