Synthetic Pelagic Biomass Size Spectra of the Tropical and Subtropical Atlantic Normalized size spectra data are presented for (a) biovolume and (b) for carbon contents for the following ecosystem components: Phytoplankton, zooplankton and micronekton Dataset Biovolume_NBSS contains the following variables, three heading lines COLUMN HEADER DESCRIPTION 1 ConsecutiveNumber Control number 2 Cruise Cruise name 3 Reference Cruise/data record reference 4 CruiseID ID 5 StationID ID 6 Net_index ID, opt. 7 Date YYYY-MM-DD 8 Longitude Position, decimal degrees 9 Latitude Position, decimal degrees 10 Target organisms Phytoplankton Zooplankton Detritus + zooplankton (only for UVP) Mesopelagic fishes invMicronekton – invertebrate micronekton only totMicronekton – mesopelagic fishes + invertebrate Micronekton 11 Gear Gear applied 12 Operation mode Gear operation mode 13 Catching Depth max [m] Catching depth maximum 14 Catching Depth min [m] Catching depth minimum 15 Biomass determination Biomass Determination method 16 Contact Person Contact person 17 Day/night Sampling time 18 Region Region affiliation 19-74 mm3 m-3 mm-3 Biovolume data normalized, additionally with reference to "Size class interval (mm-mm]" and "log mm3/individual" Dataset Carbon_NBSS contains the following variables, three heading lines COLUMN HEADER DESCRIPTION 1 ConsecutiveNumber Control number 2 Cruise Cruise name 3 Reference Cruise/data record reference 4 CruiseID ID 5 StationID ID 6 Net_index ID, opt. 7 Date YYYY-MM-DD 8 Longitude Position, decimal degrees 9 Latitude Position, decimal degrees 10 target organisms Phytoplankton Zooplankton Mesopelagic fishes invMicronekton – invertebrate micronekton only totMicronekton – mesopelagic fishes + invertebrate Micronekton 11 Gear Gear applied 12 Operation mode Gear operation mode 13 Catching Depth max [m] Catching depth maximum 14 Catching Depth min [m] Catching depth minimum 15 Biomass determination Biomass Determination method 16 Contact Person Contact person 17 filtered volume [m3] 18 Day/night Sampling time 19 SST (C) In situ SST 20 Temperature (C) In situ temperature 21 Salinity In situ salinity (PSU) 22 Oxygen (umol/kg) In situ oxygen (µmol/kg) 23 Region Region affiliation 24-79 gC m-3 g-1C Carbon biomass data normalized, additionally with reference to " Size class number" and " Exponent"