Biogeochemical variables and optimum multiparameter analysis results from the tropical and subtropical Atlantic of the MAFIA cruise in 2015

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This dataset contains the results of the fluorescent dissolved organic matter characterisation (FDOM) and water mass optimum multiparameter analysis from the MAFIA cruise (Migrants and Active Flux In the Atlantic ocean). Samples were collected in the tropical and subtropical Atlantic during the MAFIA cruise (April 2015) on board the BIO Hespérides. Seawater samples for biogeochemical analyses were collected at 13 stations (from the Brazilian coast to the Canary Islands), from the surface down to 3500 m, using a General Oceanics oceanographic rosette equipped with 24 l PVC Niskin bottles. Oxygen solubility was computed using the equation of Benson and Krause (1984). AOU (µmol/kg) was calculated by subtracting measured oxygen concentration from the oxygen solubility values at saturation, with respect to the atmosphere. Fluorescence measurements were performed with a Perkin-Elmer LS55 spectrofluorometer and FDOM was characterised by means of a Parallel Factor analysis. Integrated values were estimated by multiplying the discrete measurements by the distance, in meters, between samples. The contribution of each water mass to each sample was objectively quantified applying an optimum multiparameter analysis (excluding mixed layer samples, here < 100 m). The aim of this dataset was to jointly characterise the FDOM and water mass distributions to infer the processes that shape the dissolved organic matter pool in the deep ocean (water mass mixing and history vs. local processes)

Horizon 2020 (H2020), grant/award no. 817806: Sustainable management of mesopelagic resources; Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN), grant/award no. CTM2012-39587-C04: Migrants and Active Flux In the Atlantic Ocean; Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN), grant/award no. CTM2015-69392-C3: Constraining organic carbon fluxes in an eastern boundary upwelling ecosystem (NW Africa): the role of non-sinking carbon in the context of the biological pump; Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN), grant/award no. CTM2017-83362-R: INTERES: Papel de las interacciones fitoplancton-bacterias en la respuesta del plancton microbiano a la entrada de nutrientes alóctonos; Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN), grant/award no. PID2019-109084RB-C21: Biogeochemical impact of mesoscale and sub-mesoscale processes along the life history of cyclonic and anticyclonic eddies: plankton variability and productivity

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