Parameter: Instrument

Parameter: 
Master parameters information
Short Name:
 instrument
Short Description:
 instrument
Official Name:
 instrument
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Description:
 

instrument used to collect or process data, definition is specific to the data set in which it appears

Dataset-parameters information
Supplied Name: 
Instrument
Supplied Units: 
unitless
Datatype: 
String
Conversion Necessary: 
no
Description: 

Instrument:
36pl Rosette = ODF CTD Rosette.
Aerosol Sampler = High-volume aerosol sampler.
Argo = Deployment of Argo float.
Be 7 = Collection of large volumes (ca. 700L) of water from multiple depths in the upper 200m using a deck-mounted centrifugal pump attached to tubing.
bio-Argo = Bio Argo float.
GeoFish = A towed near surface (<2 m) sampling system for collection of trace metal clean seawater.
Geotraces C = GEOTRACES CTD Rosette.
McLane = Dual-flow McLane Research in-situ pumps (WTS-LV).
NEMO = Deployment of a PROVOR NEMO float.
Other = Deep Argo float deployments; see the Comment column.
Ship = Used for test event.
Surf Ra Pump = Hand-deployed surface pump to collected ca. 1500L of surface water for measurement of Radium isotopes.
Underway = Used to mark the beginning and end of sampling of surface water via the ship's through-hull clean sampling system.