This dataset reports 74 profiles of <53um and >53um concentrations of particulate organic carbon (POC), particulate inorganic carbon (PIC), and biogenic silica (bSi) collected and analyzed by James K.B. Bishop from 17 cruises using ship-powered (Multiple Unit) Large Volume In-situ Filtration (LVFS, later MULVFS) between 1973 and 2005. The dataset was compiled by Phoebe Lam.
This dataset compiles size fractionated (less than 53 micrometers (<53um) and greater than 53 micrometers (>53um)) particulate organic carbon (POC), particulate inorganic carbon (PIC), and biogenic silica (bSi concentrations collected by the Large Volume in-situ Filtration System (LVFS, Bishop and Edmond, 1976) and the Multiple Unit Large Volume in-situ Filtration System (MULVFS, Bishop, et al., 1985) between 1973 and 2005. A description of the compilation is given in Lam, et al. (2011), and the >53um POC, bSi, and PIC and 1-53um POC data were published in the supplemental information of that paper. This data submission adds 1-53um PIC and 0.4um-53um bSi to those data, as well as includes a few more coastal stations that were not reported in Lam, et al. (2011).
Bishop, J. K., Lam, P. J. (2022) Compilation of MULVFS size-fractionated POC, PIC, and bSi data from 17 cruises conducted between 1973 and 2005. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2022-11-21 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. doi:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.884057.1 [access date]
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