SeaBASS Submission Checklist: Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) 

Please address the questions below. Rename this file to be specific to your data, e.g., “EXPERIMENT_CRUISE_checklist_doc_version.txt” and include it with your other submitted documents.

Experiment Name:

Cruise Name:

1. Filter diameter and nominal pore size:

2. Make and type (e.g., Whatman GF/F, GF-75, etc.):

3. Volume of sample collected:

4. Any pre-treatment applied to the filters (e.g., combustion temperature, and duration):

Sampling and processing

5. Method of filtration (e.g., bench top, in line system, inline):

6. Method of fixation (e.g., acidified, frozen). Include acid concentration and volume administered if acid was used:

7. Amount of time stored prior to analysis:

8. Were samples collected in glass vials?

Measurement

9. Instrument make and model:

10. Calibration standard and concentrations used:

11. Calibration curve fit (i.e., R2 value):

12. Reference material:

13. Average and standard deviation of reference material:

14. Number of injections considered per sample (e.g., 3 of 7 total):

Post sampling processing

15. Were replicates reported (i.e., bincount)?

16. Were standard deviation or CV% of replicates reported?

A note on units.

Please use the recommended SeaBASS unit for DOC (DOC_L, umol/L). Even though is customary for chemical oceanography data to be reported in mass per kg, for the purposes of remote sensing calibration, the recommended units must be normalized by volume.

Absorption of light in seawater, or any other medium, is a volumetric process, even though the volume absorption coefficient may vary with the density of the medium. For ocean color and optical analyses, therefore, the concentration of the biogeochemical parameters, shall be expressed in units of mass per unit volume of seawater.