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Physical and chemical profile data collected from CTD and XBT aboard R/V Point Sur in the Pacific Ocean at CalCOFI sites from 2012-03-27 to 2012-03-30 (NCEI Accession 0098772)

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Following in a long tradition of hydrographic studies of the California Current system, the data in this report were collected during the 27-30 March 2012 cruise of the Pacific Coast Ocean Observing System (PaCOOS) program aboard the R/V Point Sur. The PaCOOS program was organized in 2003/2004 as the NOAA west coast contribution to the national Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS), and is charged with "providing ocean information for the sustained use of the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem under a changing climate. PaCOOS cruises generally subsample the standard California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) grid of hydrographic stations. This PaCOOS cruise did exactly that, sampling along CalCOFI line 67 from Moss Landing, California, to station 90 (CTD casts 1-19). To increase the resolution of the hydrographic data and to maintain the convention of similar recent PaCOOS cruises, eight CTD casts were also inserted between the standard CalCOFI sites along line 67. Participants on the cruise came from the Naval Postgraduate School (Physical Oceanography, Nutrient Analysis), the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (Nutrient Analysis, Primary Productivity), University of California at Santa Cruz (Zooplankton Analysis), and Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (Nutrient Analysis).

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0098772 CHLOROPHYLL A CONDUCTIVITY DEPTH - OBSERVATION DISSOLVED OXYGEN FLUORESCENCE HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE NUTRIENTS PHAEOPIGMENTS PHOTOSYNTHETIC ACTIVE RADIATION (PAR) PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY SALINITY SIGMA-THETA TRANSMISSIVITY WATER TEMPERATURE bathythermograph - XBT CTD fluorometer laboratory analysis net oxygen sensor PAR Sensor salinometer transmissometer biological chemical laboratory analyses physical plankton profile tows POINT SUR Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Moss Landing Marine Laboratories University of California - Santa Cruz US Navy/Naval Postgraduate School US Navy/Naval Postgraduate School Pacific Coast Ocean Observing System (PaCOOS) Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary North Pacific Ocean oceanography DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOD/USNAVY/NPS > Naval Postgraduate School, U.S. Navy, U.S. Department of Defense MBARI > Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute MLML > Moss Landing Marine Laboratories IOOS > Integrated Ocean Observing System PacIOOS > Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS > PRIMARY PRODUCTION EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > CHLOROPHYLL EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > NUTRIENTS EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > OXYGEN EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > PIGMENTS > CHLOROPHYLL EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > ATTENUATION/TRANSMISSION EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > FLUORESCENCE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN PRESSURE > WATER PRESSURE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > CONDUCTIVITY EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > DENSITY EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY CTD > Conductivity, Temperature, Depth FLUOROMETERS > FLUOROMETERS NETS > NETS OXYGEN METERS > OXYGEN METERS PAR SENSORS > Photosynthetically Active Radiation Sensors SALINOMETERS TRANSMISSOMETERS XBT > Expendable Bathythermographs POINT SUR (call sign: WSC2276, ICES code: 32P0, 1980-) OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN

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