Physical oceanography during RV Maria S. Merian cruise MSM121

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The CTD data on cruise MSM121 contain oceanic measurements of temperature, salinity, oxygen and pressure at 60 stations. The data were collected with the research vessel Maria S. Merian. Region: subpolar North Atlantic, 9°W-43°W, 41°N-50°N; Ports: Nuuk - Ponta Delgada; Date: September 22 - October 16, 2023. The data where collected by a CTD device of type SBE 9. The CTD was mounted to a metal frame with 22 water sample bottles, which was lowered from the sea surface down to 10 m above the seafloor. The sampling frequency was 24 Hz, the raw data were then interpolated on 1 dbar intervals. The CTD system was comprised of two sensor sets for temperature, conductivity, and oxygen. For every profile, the data given here are based on that set of sensors which were estimated to be of better quality. Salinity and oxygen data from the CTD were calibrated by comparison with samples from the water bottles. The bottle salinity was analysed by a salinometer of type Guildline Autosal 8400A, bottle oxygen samples by Winkler titration. The accuracy of the calibrated CTD measurements is: 1 dbar for pressure, 0.002 °C for temperature, 0.003 for salinity, 1.4% (about 3.5 µmol/kg) for oxygen. Detailed information can be found in the cruise report: https://doi.org/10.48433/cr_msm121.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.982250
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.48433/cr_msm121
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.982250
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Creator Steinfeldt, Reiner ORCID logo; Mertens, Christian ORCID logo; Hainbucher, Dagmar; Frajka-Williams, Eleanor ORCID logo; Rhein, Monika ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2025
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 939486 data points
Discipline Geosciences; Natural Sciences; Oceanography/Marine Science; Physical Oceanography
Spatial Coverage (-52.368W, 41.001S, -43.166E, 50.000N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2023-09-28T02:25:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2023-10-11T13:38:00Z