Conductivity-Temperature Recorder Products (SBE 16, SBE 1603, SBE 37, and "Seabird")

There are four conductivity/temperature recorder instruments. The SBE37 is more prevalent and multiple instruments currently reside on many deployed moorings. There is currently no more than one SBE16 on any mooring, but it is envisioned that there may be more than one. The "Seabird" was used only on the M01 deployments by WHOI (M0101 and M0102), and will probably not be used on future deployments.

The SBE16 measures everything that the SBE37 measures, but optionally includes dissolved oxygen parameters or transmissivity.

The SBE 1603 has not been used on a GOMOOS deployment yet, but has been used in Blue Hill Bay. It has produced an identical set of geophysical parameters as that of the SBE 16, but takes considerably more work to process, as temperature and conductivity have to be calibrated from counts to frequencies and then finally to temperature/conductivity.

• Dissolved Oxygen

• Oxygen Saturation

• Percent Oxygen Saturation

• Salinity

• Sigma T

• Temperature

• Transmissivity