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CTD System

Responsible Techician: Bing-Rong (Robert) Jiang

CTD    Conductivity    Temperature    Dissolved Oxygen    Fluorometers

Transmissometer    PAR    Altimeters    Turbidity

CTD

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Quantity: 3

Supplier: Sea-Bird Scientific

Model: SBE 9plus

Features: The main body of CTD, equipped with a pressure sensor, is compatible with the SBE 11plus Deck Unit for data acquisition. Additional sensors can be attached for collecting various data along oceanographic profiles.

Depth Rating: 6800 m

OEM manualLink

Datasheet & Specification of ProbesLink

Data Conversion (only in Chinese)Link

Extract Metadata (only in Chinese)Link

 

Conductivity Sensors

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Quantity: 4

Supplier: Sea-Bird Scientific 

Model: SBE 4

Features: Measuring the seawater conductivity, which is then converted into salinity.

Depth Rating: 6800 m

Datasheet: Link

OEM Link: Link

 

Temperature Sensors

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Quantity: 4

Supplier: Sea-Bird Scientific 

Model: SBE 3plus

Features: Measuring temperature profiles of seawater.

Depth Rating: 6800 m

Datasheet: Link

OEM Link: Link

 

Dissolved Oxygen Sensors

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Quantity: 4

Supplier: Sea-Bird Scientific

Model: SBE 43

Features: Using the electrode method, with different oxygen concentrations causing varying potential differences across the electrodes, the probes meausre dissolved oxygen content in the water.

Depth Rating: 6800 m

DatasheetLink

OEM LinkLink

 

Fluorometers

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Quantity: 3

Supplier: Chelsea Technologies Ltd / Sea-Bird Scientific

Model: ECO FL

Features: Measuring seawater fluorescence, which can be converted to chlorophyll concentration after calibration with data of discrete samples.

Depth Rating: 6800 m

Datasheet: Link

OEM Link: Link

Transmissometers

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Quantity: 3

Supplier: Sea-Bird Scientific

Model: C-Star

Feature: Through a light path of fixed length, the attenuation caused by scattering, absorption, diffraction, and refraction of particles in seawater is measured, yielding the transmittance value.

Depth Rating: 6800 m

DatasheetLink

OEM LinkLink

PAR Sensor

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Quantity: 1

Supplier: Chelsea Technologies Ltd

Model: PAR

Features: An auxiliary instrument used to measure the visible light intensity in water.

Depth Rating: 1000 m

DatasheetLink

 

Altimeters

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Quantity: 2

Supplier: Tritech International Limited

Model: PA200

Features: An auxiliary instrument used to measure the height of the CTD above the seabed (within 100 meters).

Depth Rating: 1000 m

DatasheetLink

OEM manualLink

OEM LinkLink

Turbidity meter

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Quantity: 1

Supplier: Seapoint Sensor, Inc.

Model: STM/MCBH6M

Features: Measuring the turbidity of water; no self-recording capabilities. In the event that the electronic channels of the SBE 9plus are full, the fluorometer, transmissometer, or PAR has to be detached in order to use this probe.

Depth Rating: 6000 m

DatasheetLink

OEM manualLink