[ email from Dick Barber to all EQPAC investigators, dated Mar 25, 1994 ]
[ NB: corrections as noted have been applied to the tt007/pp dataset ]
EqPac People, Two errors have been identified in the TT007 primary productivity integrations. The integration errors are for the following stations: TT007, Sta. 1, 12N, 4 Feb 1992 TT007, Sta. 4, 5N, 12 Feb 1992. Following are the INCORRECT and the CORRECT values: INCORRECT TT007, Sta. 1, 12N, 4 Feb 1992---to 1%=269.6 mgC/m2/d TT007, Sta. 1, 12N, 4 Feb 1992---to 0.1%=319.3 mgC/m2/d TT007, Sta. 4, 5N, 12 Feb 1992---to 1%=578.96 mgC/m2/d TT007, Sta. 4, 5N, 12 Feb 1992---to 0.1%=625.81 mgC/m2/d CORRECT TT007, Sta. 1, 12N, 4 Feb 1992---to 1%=229.5 mgC/m2/d TT007, Sta. 1, 12N, 4 Feb 1992---to 0.1%=271.7 mgC/m2/d TT007, Sta. 4, 5N, 12 Feb 1992---to 1%=491.3 mgC/m2/d TT007, Sta. 4, 5N, 12 Feb 1992---to 0.1%=568.2 mgC/m2/d I apologize for the errors. We recalculated and found what the error was. In averaging replicate counts for these profiles, the next lower line was also averaged into the station average. I thank John Nevins for bringing the errors to my attention. A second and unrelated note is that the integrations I reported for TT007 are the means of replicate integrations; therefore, they will differ (by a few percent) from integrations of the mean vertical profiles. At the second data workshop I'll pass out "integrations of the means"; what you have in hand now are "means of the integrations." This note is solely for the peace of mind of people who want to re-integrate the primary productivity profiles to different depth horizons for themselves. The difference between the two numerical procedures is less than the standard error of either. Regards, Dick Barber