Data
All data sets from the 1995-2005 cruises are publically
available, with the CTD profiles and underway surface time series
available online at www.bodc.ac.uk/projects/uk/amt.
The remaining AMT data sets are available upon request to
BODC,
with future web delivery under development.
The Oceans 2025 data policy has been designed to make the data
from the AMT cruises since 2007 available to the Oceans 2025
community one year after a cruises and then, after two years, to
the wider scientific community. The aim being to make maximum use
of this valuable data resource.
The British Oceanographic Data Center (BODC) has been
integrating the data that resulted from the physical, chemical and
biological measurements made during the first phase of AMT to
answer the key AMT objectives:
- How does the structure, function, and flow
of food within planktonic ecosystems vary in space and
time?
- How do physical processes affect the
supply of nutrients, including dissolved organic matters, to the
planktonic ecosystem?
- How do ocean-atmosphere exchanges and
sunlight affect the formation and breakdown of organic
matter?
- During the second phase of AMT work
expanded to cross-disciplinary studies of ocean plankton ecology
and biogeochemistry, and link to atmospheric processes.
The location of the AMT transect allows for a basin-wide
perspective on these cross-disciplinary measurements made during
the cruises, providing integrated knowledge of the physical,
chemical and biological behaviour of both the north and south
Atlantic.
The expanded data sets collected during the AMT cruises between
2002 and 2006 include:
- Aerosol and rainwater
composition
- Surface water time series and profiles of
biological chemical and physical parameters
- Optical characteristics of the water
column
- Primary, new production and respiration
measurements
- Satellite imagery
- Plankton community structure