Instrument: Transmissometer

Acronym:

Transmissometer

External Identifier:

» skos:broadMatch http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/124/

Description

A transmissometer measures the beam attenuation coefficient of the lightsource over the instrument's path-length. This instrument designation is used when specific manufacturer, make and model are not known.

Datasets

Dataset Name	Brief Description
AE2207 Processed CTD with Thermodynamic Calculations	AE2207 Processed CTD with Thermodynamic Calculations
AE2207 Unprocessed CTD	AE2207 CTD
BH15-11 Underway data	Underway data for Blue Heron cruise BH15-11 - Lake Superior
bottle data - NBP1201	Chemical and biological data from CTD Niskin bottle samples taken in the Ross Sea
BVAL CTD profiles (BATS Validation cruises)	BVAL CTD profiles
CARGO CTD Profiles	CTD profile data from lake superior
CO2 - Surface Underway pCO2 Reduced	CO2 - Surface Underway pCO2 Reduced
CTD	CTD data with beam attenuation and fluorescence
CTD - Hydro Nutrients - EN496	CTD Hydro Nutrients Data - EN496
CTD - Hydro Nutrients - EN509	CTD Hydro Nutrients Data - EN509
CTD - Profiles - EN496	CTD profile data - EN496
CTD - Profiles - EN509	CTD profile data - EN509
CTD data from Hydrostation S	CTD data from Hydrostation S
CTD profiles	CTD pressure, temperature, salinity profiles
CTD Profiles	One decibar-averaged CTD profiles from cruise AE-X1103
CTD profiles - IC1	CTD profiles from GEOTRACES cruise KN193-06 for Intercalibration of sensors.
CTD profiles 2009	CTD cast temperature, salinity, oxygen, etc from OC454-02
CTD profiles 2011	CTD profiles from AT18-14
CTD-ML	High resolution CTD and beam attenuation data
CTD_hydro_1dbar	All cruise CTD profiles from MV1008; data at 1 decibar intervals.
CTD_TN277	Processed CTD data from POWOW1 cruise (TN277).
Global Transmissometer Database	Global synthesis of POC using satellite data calibrated with transmissometer and POC data from JGOFS/WOCE
GoCal4	Bottle and CTD data from the CARNE ASADA project
GP17-OCE ODF nutrients	GP17-OCE ODF nutrients
GT10 - CTD - GT-C Profiles	CTD - GT-C Profiles (1 m downcasts)
GT10 - CTD - ODF/SIOR Profiles	CTD - ODF/SIOR Profiles (1 m downcasts)
GT11 - CTD - GT-C Profiles	CTD - GT-C Profiles (1 m downcasts)
GT11 - CTD - ODF/SIOR Profiles	ODF/SIOR CTD Profiles (1 m downcasts)
IRONMAN CTD Profiles	CTD Profile Data from the Great Lakes
KM1314 bottle	Bottle data from cruise KM1314, Aug. 8 - Sept. 4, 2013 in the northern Pacific
KM1314 CTD	CTD data from cruise KM1314, Aug. 8 - Sept. 4, 2013 in the northern Pacific
MIDAS underway data	Cross shelf undulating towed vehicle (Acrobat with MIDAS) survey data
NILS CTD Profiles	CTD Profile Data from Lake Superior
optics_beamcp	Optics - particulate beam attenuation
Park phase data	Float park phase data collected at depth.
physical and chemical data	Physical and chemical metadata for microbiological samples from Guaymas Basin plumes.
Profile data	Float profile data collected during surface ascent.
Sensor calibration data	Factory and field calibration data for float oxygen, beam transmission, backscatter, chlorophyll fluorescence and CDOM sensors from the Sargasso Sea from 2013-2014
SINC CTD Profiles	CTD Profile Data from the Great Lakes
Transmissometer Data Validation for the HOT and BATS Sites	Transmissometer data validation and correction for HOT and BATS
Tricho N Atlantic - OC469	Trichodesmium species in the North Atlantic from OC469, 2010
Tricho N Atlantic - OC471	Trichodesmium species in the North Atlantic from OC471, 2011
UDAS	Underway Data Acquisition System (UDAS) data

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Instrument: Transmissometer