TOC
PI: Catherine Goyet (WHOI) & Edward Peltzer (MBARI)
of: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution & Monterey Bay
Aquarium Research Institute
dataset: Total organic carbon from CTD casts
project/cruise: AESOPS/RR_KIWI6 - APFZ Survey I Cruise
ship: R/V Roger Revelle
at sea analysts: Catherine Goyet (WHOI) and Thomas Kirchlechner (UO/NZ).
Methods reported in:
Peltzer, Edward T. (1993). Shipboard determination of total organic carbon by
a high temperature combustion/direct injection technique. U.S. Joint Global
Ocean Flux Study - [Equatorial Pacific Protocols, 1993, section 21A].
Alternatively, see: Chapter 16 of the JGOFS Data Protocols. Determination
of Dissolved Organic Carbon by a High Temperature Combustion/Direct Injection
Technique. [JGOFS Report Nr. 19].
The EqPac methods were followed explicity on the APFZ Survey I cruise
with three exceptions:
1. Low carbon water (LCW) prepared onboard ship using a commercial NanoPure (R)
UV/TOC system was used to measure the instrument blank as opposed to the
carbon free distilled water (CFDW) that was used in EqPac.
2. The LCW prepared onboard was checked against LCW prepared at WHOI using a
Milli-Q UV/TOC (R) system and shipped to New Zealand in glass bottles. This
water was assigned a background TOC concentration of zero.
3. Arabian sea deep water was used to prepare the daily calibration standards.
This water has a background TOC concentration of 42.3 uMC.
Parameter Description Units
event event number, from event log
sta station number, from event log
cast CTD cast number, from event log
bot CTD rosette bottle number
depth_n nominal or target sample depth meters
TOC total organic carbon micromoles C/liter
TOC_kg total organic carbon micromoles C/kilogram