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NCEO Particulate Organic Carbon estimates from quality-controlled BGC-Argo data (2010-06-01 to 2021-09-22), V1.0

Latest Data Update: 2021-10-12
Status: Completed
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2021-10-25
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 1 Files | 57MB
Abstract

This is an in-situ dataset of estimates of particulate organic carbon (POC) based on all the current (2021-09-22) profiles of optical backscattering (BBP) collected by (BGC)Biogeochemical-Argo floats. The dataset spans from 2010-06-01 to 2021-09-22 and covers the upper 2000 dbars of the water column (continuous profiles have been binned in 41 vertical bins). The dataset was produced by first devising a new set of automatic tests to quality control the large BBP dataset available (>31M records over >130k profiles). The QCed BBP was then converted into POC using an empirical algorithm (average of the POC: BBP slopes of Cetinic et al., 2012)

Citable as:  Dall'Olmo, G. (2021): NCEO Particulate Organic Carbon estimates from quality-controlled BGC-Argo data (2010-06-01 to 2021-09-22), V1.0. NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/14fc02a823c142a49adb3194a0f0d1f6
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: NCEO, Particulate Organic Carbon, BGC-Argo

Details

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Access rules:
Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
Data lineage:

Data were produced by the project team and supplied for archiving at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA).
Data Quality:
BBP data have been quality controlled to the best of PML's current capabilities. Conversion to POC is based on an empirical algorithm derived in the North Atlantic and therefore is expected to be affected by uncertainties of (100%)
File Format:
NetCDF

Related Documents

 Particulate organic carbon and inherent optical properties during 2008 North Atlantic Bloom Experiment
 Argo (2000). Argo float data and metadata from Global Data Assembly Centre (Argo GDAC). SEANOE.

Process overview

This dataset was generated by the computation detailed below.
Title

Computation for Particulate Organic Carbon estimates from quality-controlled BGC-Argo data
Abstract

The POC estimates were produces using an empirical algorithm (average of the POC:BBP slopes of described Cetinic et al., 2012. Details of algorithm and input BGC Argo data can be found in the documentation section.
Input Description

None
Output Description

None
Software Reference

None
  • units: 1/m
  • var_id: bbp
  • var_id: lat
  • units: degrees north
  • var_id: lon
  • units: degrees east
  • units: mg/m3
  • var_id: poc
  • var_id: pres
  • units: dbars
  • var_id: time

Co-ordinate Variables

Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2010-06-01T00:00:00
End time:
2021-09-22T00:00:00
Geographic Extent

 
78.7590°
  
179.9850°
  
179.9910°
 
75.6470°
  
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