Open science resources from the Tara Pacific expedition across coral reef and surface ocean ecosystems
The Tara Pacific expedition (2016–2018) sampled coral ecosystems around 32 islands in the Pacific Ocean and the ocean surface waters at 249 locations, resulting in the collection of nearly 58 000 samples. The expedition was designed to systematically study warm-water coral reefs and included the col...
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Published in | Scientific data Vol. 10; no. 1; p. 324 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
London
Nature Publishing Group UK
01.06.2023
Nature Publishing Group Nature Portfolio |
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Summary: | The
Tara
Pacific expedition (2016–2018) sampled coral ecosystems around 32 islands in the Pacific Ocean and the ocean surface waters at 249 locations, resulting in the collection of nearly 58 000 samples. The expedition was designed to systematically study warm-water coral reefs and included the collection of corals, fish, plankton, and seawater samples for advanced biogeochemical, molecular, and imaging analysis. Here we provide a complete description of the sampling methodology, and we explain how to explore and access the different datasets generated by the expedition. Environmental context data were obtained from taxonomic registries, gazetteers, almanacs, climatologies, operational biogeochemical models, and satellite observations. The quality of the different environmental measures has been validated not only by various quality control steps, but also through a global analysis allowing the comparison with known environmental large-scale structures. Such publicly released datasets open the perspective to address a wide range of scientific questions.
Measurement(s)
TSG ¥ EDM ¥ EIMS ¥ optode ¥ navigation ¥ ACS ¥ BB3 ¥ WSCD ¥ PAR ¥ SMPS
Technology Type(s)
thermosalinograph ¥ optical particle counter ¥ equilibrator Inlet Mass Spectrometry (EIMS) ¥ oxygen optode ¥ spectral backscattering sensor ¥ PAR sensor
Independent variable(s)
aerosol concentration ¥ O/Ar ratio ¥ oxygen concentration ¥ navigation and meteorology ¥ phytoplankton size ¥ backscattering ¥ relative DOM fluorescence¥ photosynthetically active radiations ¥ particle size distribution
Sample Characteristic - Environment
ocean ¥ atmosphere
Sample Characteristic - Location
Pacific Ocean ¥ Atlantic Ocean |
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ISSN: | 2052-4463 2052-4463 |
DOI: | 10.1038/s41597-022-01757-w |