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    SPURS-1 research vessel CTD profile data for N. Atlantic cruises

    Metadata Updated: February 22, 2025

    The SPURS (Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study) project is an oceanographic process study and associated field program that aim to elucidate key mechanisms responsible for near-surface salinity variations in the oceans. The project involves two field campaigns and a series of cruises in regions of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans exhibiting salinity extremes. SPURS employs a suite of state-of-the-art in-situ sampling technologies that, combined with remotely sensed salinity fields from the Aquarius/SAC-D and SMOS satellites, provide a detailed characterization of salinity structure over a continuum of spatio-temporal scales. The SPURS-1 campaign involved a series of 5 cruises during 2012 - 2013 seeking to characterize the salinity structure and balance in a high salinity, high evaporation, and low rainfall region of the subtropical North Atlantic. It aims to resolve processes responsible for maintaining the subtropical surface salinity maximum in this region and within a 900 x 800-mile square study area centered at 25N, 38W. CTD (Conductivity, Temperature, Depth) profilers were deployed at stations on each of the 5 SPURS-1 cruises. These shipboard lowered CTD probes provide continuous conductivity, salinity, and temperature vertical profile observations at fixed sampling locations. There were 100, 52, 17, 22 and 94 CTD casts made during the Knorr, Endeavor-1, Endeavor-2, Sarmiento, and Thalassa cruises respectively. All CTD data were calibrated using shipboard salinometers using IAPSO standard seawater. SPURS-1 shipboard CTD data files (one per cruise) contain the observational data processed to 1 meter bin depth intervals.

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    Metadata Created Date February 22, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date February 22, 2025

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    Harvested from nasa test json

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date February 22, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date February 22, 2025
    Publisher NASA/JPL/PODAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2491772169-POCLOUD
    Data First Published 2015-02-13
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-02-19
    Category SPURS, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/SPUR1-CTD00
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -63.0 23.0 -37.0 43.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 2973d2f8e26c96822fccff50becbb2de4b977a1ee00c8702d14ee2e7ff89aafd
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2012-08-16T00:00:00Z/2013-10-05T00:00:00Z

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