DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6449892
title: Chlorophyll a concentration, particulate organique carbon, and particle mean size index [gamma; 0.2 - 20 µm] measured using an hyperspectral spectrophotometer [ACS, Wetlabs] during the Tara Pacific Expedition 2016-2018

description: The Tara Pacific expedition (2016-2018) sampled coral ecosystems around 32 islands in the Pacific Ocean, and sampled the surface of oceanic waters at 249 locations, resulting in the collection of nearly 58,000 samples (Gorsky et al. 2019, Planes et al. 2019, Flores et al. 2020). The expedition was designed to systematically study corals, fish, plankton, and seawater, and included the collection of samples for advanced biogeochemical, molecular, and imaging analysis. Here we provide the continuous dataset originating from the hyperspectral and multispectral spectrophotometers [ACS] instruments acquiring continuously during the full course of the campaign. Surface seawater was pumped continuously through a hull inlet located 1.5 m under the waterline using a membrane pump (10 LPM; Shurflo), circulated through a vortex debubbler, a flow meter, and distributed to a number of flow-through instruments. An [ACS] spectrophotometer (WETLabs) measured hyper-spectral (4 nm resolution) attenuation and absorption in the visible and near infrared except between Panama and Tahiti where an AC-9 multispectral spectrophotometer (WETLabs) was used instead. The flow was automatically directed through a 0.2 µm filter for 10 minutes every hour before being circulated through the spectrophotometer to eliminate the impact of biofouling and instrument drift and estimate particulate absorption [ap] and attenuation [cp] (Slade et al. 2010). Chlorophyll a content was estimated from particulate absorption line height at 676 nm (Boss et al. 2001). The particulate organic carbon concentration [poc] was estimated using an empirical relation (Gardner et al. 2006) between measured [poc] and measured [cp]. An indicator for size distribution of particles between 0.2 and ~20 µm [gamma] was calculated from [cp] (Boss et al 2001). The data was processed with custom software for underway optical data (InLineAnalysis software available on GitHub). The detailed information regarding the data processing is given in the processing report attached with the data and in Lombard et al. (In prep.). These results are preliminary: no matchup with in-situ chlorophyll from HPLC or [poc] measurements were performed.
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