A compilation of dissolved noble gas and N2/Ar ratio measurements collected from 1999-2016 in locations spanning the globe

Date
2018-08-24Author
Hamme, Roberta C.
Jenkins, William J.
Emerson, Steven R.
Nicholson, David P.
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https://hdl.handle.net/1912/10538As published
https://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset/743867Date Created
2018-08-13Location
North AtlanticEastern Tropical Pacific - Transect from Peru to Tahiti
Oxygen minium zone; East Pacific Rise
Global oceans
westlimit: -159.9952; southlimit: -68.1081; eastlimit: 178.9985; northlimit: 78.9988
DOI
10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.744563Abstract
Inert gases dissolved in the ocean are powerful tracers of the impact of physical processes on gases, particularly air-sea gas exchange (by both diffusive and bubble-meditated processes), temperature change, atmospheric pressure variation, mixing between different water masses, and ice processes. We have compiled a global ocean database of dissolved neon, argon, and krypton measurements, supplemented by helium, xenon, and nitrogen/argon (N2/Ar) ratios in some locations. Samples were collected on board multiple research cruises spanning the period 1999 through 2016 and analyzed by mass spectrometry at four different shore-based laboratories (University of Victoria, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, University of Washington, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography). For a complete list of measurements, refer to the supplemental document 'Field_names.pdf', and a full dataset description is included in the supplemental file 'Dataset_description.pdf'. The most current version of this dataset is available at: http://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/743867
Description
Dataset: Global Noble Gases
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Dataset: Hamme, Roberta C., Jenkins, William J., Emerson, Steven R., Nicholson, David P., "A compilation of dissolved noble gas and N2/Ar ratio measurements collected from 1999-2016 in locations spanning the globe", 2018-08-24, DOI:10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.744563, https://hdl.handle.net/1912/10538The following license files are associated with this item: