Partial pressure (or fugacity) of carbon dioxide, dissolved inorganic carbon, pH, alkalinity, temperature, salinity and other variables collected from discrete sample and profile observations using CTD, bottle and other instruments from NOAA Ship RONALD H. BROWN in the Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary, Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean from 2012-07-21 to 2012-08-13 (NCEI Accession 0157619)

This dataset includes biological, chemical, discrete sample, optical, physical and profile data collected from NOAA Ship RONALD H. BROWN in the Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary, Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean from 2012-07-21 to 2012-08-13. These data include ABSORPTION - SCATTERING - ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS, CARBON - CARBONATE, CHLOROPHYLL, CHLOROPHYLL A, Calcium, Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM), DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON (DIC), DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON, DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER, DISSOLVED OXYGEN, Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE, NITRATE, NITRITE, PHAEOPHYTIN, PIGMENTS, Partial pressure (or fugacity) of carbon dioxide - water, Potential temperature (theta), SALINITY, SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE, SIGMA-THETA, TOTAL ALKALINITY (TA), Total Organic Carbon (TOC), WATER TEMPERATURE, diatom, nitrate + nitrite content (concentration), pH, phosphate, silicate and suspended solids. The instruments used to collect these data include CTD and bottle.

These data were collected by Jia-Zhong Zhang, Molly O. Baringer, and Rik Wanninkhof of NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), Wei-Jun Cai of University of Delaware, and Robert H. Byrne of University of South Florida (USF) as part of the Coastal_GOMECC2 dataset. CDIAC associated the following cruise ID(s) with this dataset: Coastal_GOMECC2

The Global Coastal Carbon Data Project data includes the bottle (discrete) and surface (underway) carbon-related measurements from coastal research cruises, the data from time series cruises and coastal moorings. The coastal regions data are very important for the understanding of carbon cycle on the continental margins.