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Alternative Title:
Coastal & Oceanic Plankton Ecology, Production & Observation Database, a global plankton database;Review of the 2005 database contents and creation of new global zooplankton biomass fields;
Personal Author:
O'Brien, Todd D.
Corporate Authors:
United States, National Marine Fisheries Service,
NOAA Program & Office:
NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service)
Description:
The Coastal & Oceanic Plankton Ecology, Production & Observation Database (COPEPOD) is an online, global coverage plankton database. Designed by the former lead-developer of the World Ocean Database Plankton (1998-2004), this new plankton database effort presents significant amounts of additional data content along with a renewed focus on providing better data access, integrated products, and acknowledgment of the original plankton investigator(s). This document presents the data sources and methods used in this new database and summarizes its contents as of the December 2005 monthly update. This document also presents a new methodology for building global zooplankton biomass fields, including improved techniques for combining data from different sampling gear and measurement methods. The results of this new methodology are compared to the World Ocean Database 2001, finding that previous work had over-estimated its zooplankton carbon mass by up to four times
Content Notes:
Todd D. O'Brien.

"December 2005."

"NMFS-COPEPOD the Coastal & Oceanic Plankton Ecology, Production & Observation Database"--Cover.

Also available online in PDF format.

Includes bibliographical references (page 18).


Keywords:
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Classification Databases Data Processing Geographical Distribution Plankton Zooplankton
Series:
NOAA tech. memo. NMFS-F/SPO ; 73
Document Type:
Technical Memorandum
Place as Subject:
United States
Rights Information:
Public Domain
Compliance:
Library
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:775b20b87612b92d0e74b492b82aa530d80ee2d4bbfeaf1bc102946cb681c1f9
Download URL:
https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/3497/noaa_3497_DS1.pdf
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