TITLE: NOAA R/V Ron Brown Light, 300-800 nm Data

AUTHOR(S):

Andrew J. Hind 	ajhind@googlmail.com
Patricia A. Matrai	pmatrai@bigelow.org

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
180 McKown Point
W. Boothbay Harbor, ME 04575 USA
Phone 207 633 9600; Fax 207 633 9641

1.0 DATA SET OVERVIEW:

Data was collected during Legs 1 and 2 of the VOCALS cruise

Time period covered by the data: Leg 1 data is from 21-Oct-2008 to 2-Nov-2008
and leg 2 is from 10-Nov-2008 until 01-Dec-2008.

Platform: Ronald H. Brown

Location: mobile

2.0 INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION:

Satlantic Hyper-OCR hyperspectral radiometer (Satlantic Inc, Nova Scotia,
Canada). The instrument measures in the range 355-800 nm

3.0 DATA COLLECTION AND PROCESSING:

Data were binned into 5nm bands and averaged hourly. The data are in Watts per
meter squared (W m-2)


4.0 DATA FORMAT:

Column delimited ASCII

Headers

The first column contains the start time of the bin and the second is the end
time. These are in UTC. The latitude and longitude of the ship at the start
time are given in the third and fourth columns in digital degrees. The fifth
column onwards contain the binned light between the wavelength in the header
and the subsequent bin. i.e. the column labelled “355” contains the binned
sum of light between 355 and 360 nm. Only the first seven column headers are
given here for brevity but the 5 nm increments continue until the last column
which is labelled 795 and contains the light between 795 and 800 nm. Units are
Watts per meter squared (W m-2).

Time start
Time end
Latitude start
Longitude start
355
360
365
370
375
380
385
UTC
UTC
Degrees N, digital
Degrees E, digital
W m-2
W m-2
W m-2
W m-2
W m-2
W m-2
W m-2
Date of data version: 14-Feb-2011

5.0 DATA REMARKS:

REMARKS = These data can be considered final
REMARKS = Data point Date/Time provided in UTC
REMARKS = Missing data = NaN

6.0 REFERENCES: