Assessing controls on cross-shelf phytoplankton and suspended particle distributions using repeated bio-optical glider surveys

The data were collected from an oceanographic glider in the coastal Santa Barbara Chanel, CA during six deployments from March 2012 to June 2013. Data includes 404 cross-shelf sections of temperature (C), salinity (PSU), colored dissolved organic material (CDOM, volts; dark-corrected), particulate backscatter (bbp at 650nm, m-1) and Chlorophyll fluorescence (chl-fl, volts; dark-corrected). Each section is 35x40 in size (35 depth measurements x 40 latitude measurements about 100m apart). They were obtained from kriging of raw sections every 100m in latitude and 2m in depth. Longitude is constant at -119 44.824. Matlab files are indexed to each of the glider sections (1-404). Data are described in Hendrikx Freitas, F., D. A. Siegel, L. Washburn, S. Halewood and E. Stassinos. 2016. Assessing controls on cross-shelf phytoplankton and suspended particle distributions using repeated bio-optical glider surveys. Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 121: 7776-7794. Doi: 10.1002/2016JC011781 Definition of the variables in the matlab file: Times are in matlab time. Gtime is the average timestamp of each glider section (first column = time; second column = mission number it belongs to). Gdurationanddirection is useful to know how long (in time) each section actually is, and what direction it started with (inshore-offshore or offshore-inshore). Gvel are the depth-averaged velocities obtained from the glider (columns are time, lat, lon, alongshore component of currents, cross-shore component of currents, mission number). Chl in mg/m3 = 0.0159*(dark corrected chl counts)-0.0165); N=9; r=0.82 (p-value<0.05). bbp in 1/m units and it was the optical backscatter data that were converted to particulate backscattering following standard algorithms.