CARIACO Project
Cruise Report Technical Memorandum 

CARIACO CRUISE

Cruise number: CAR73_1
Cruise dates: 11 dic, 2001
Geographical location: Cariaco Basin, SE Caribbean Sea

Station location: CARIACO time series station occupied at 10.48 N, 64.67 W
Scope of the Program:
This is a monthly hydrographic program conducted as part of the CARIACO (CArbon Retention In A Colored Ocean) program.

Data collected and instruments used:
- Physical/chemical characteristics of the water:
-CTD (SBE 25)
-Discrete oxygen observations 
-Discrete salinity observations
-Nutrients

-Bio-optics: (11 dic, 2001)
	
	- PRR-600 (Profiling Reflectance Radiometer) profiling radiometry:
		7 bands Ed, Es (412, 443, 490, 532, 555, 665, 683 nm)
		7 bands Lu (412, 443, 490, 532, 555, 665, 683 nm)
	
	- Above-water radiometry (Spectrascan 380-780 nm, 4 nm resolution)
		Upwelling radiance
		Downwelling irradiance
		Remote Sensing Reflectance
	
- c-beam attenuation coefficient at 660 nm (transmissometer profile)
- particulate absorption coefficient (ap)


-Biology:
	- primary productivity
- pigments (chlorophyll a, phaeopigments)
- Particulate Organic Carbon / Particulate Organic Nitrogen

- Bacterias

-Phytoplankton taxonomy

-Chlorophyll  



CARIACO Project
Cruise Report Technical Memorandum