Dataset: Suspended particulate matter along US GEOTRACES North Atlantic Transect from the R/V Knorr KN199-04 cruise in the subtropical northern Atlantic Ocean in 2010 (U.S. GEOTRACES NAT project)

Suspended particulate matter (SPM) on samples collected during Geotraces 2010 (KN199-04).

The following metadata was extracted from the original file header:

/begin_header
/investigators=Joaquin_Chaves
/affiliations=NASA
/contact=joaquin.chaves@nasa.gov
/experiment=GEOTRACES
/cruise=kn199-4
/station=NA
/data_file_name=kn199-4_SPM_NCODMO.csv
/documents=SPM_protocols.pdf
/calibration_files=missing_calibration.txt
/data_type=bottle
/data_status=final
/start_date=20101017
/end_date=20101102
/start_time=11:20:00[GMT]
/end_time=17:10:00[GMT]
/north_latitude=38.3296[DEG]
/south_latitude=17.3581[DEG]M
/east_longitude=-9.6604[DEG]
/west_longitude=-24.4962[DEG]
/water_depth=-999
/measurement_depth=-999
/secchi_depth=-999
/wind_speed=-999
/cloud_percent=-999
/wave_height=-999
!
! The field "replicates" indicates how many replicate samples were
! averaged to produce the reported value

NOTE:  The following header line was incorrect and subsequently corrected by BCO-DMO     
! sample_no==-999 were collected with NASA's surface peristaltic pump

! quality = 1 good; 2 = medium; 3 = poor
!
/missing=-999
/delimiter=comma