Environmental data at the sampling event level collected with Inline instruments, almanach, models and satellites during the Tara Pacific Expedition 2016-2018

The Tara Pacific expedition (2016-2018) sampled coral ecosystems around 32 islands in the Pacific Ocean, and sampled the surface of oceanic waters at 249 locations, resulting in the collection of nearly 58,000 samples. The expedition was designed to systematically study corals, fish, plankton, and seawater, and included the collection of samples for advanced biogeochemical, molecular, and imaging analysis. Here we provide at the sampling event level, the environmental data originating from all instruments acquiring continuously during the full course of the campaign. This dataset is augmented with the addition of variables originating from almanach (local sun/moon set/rise, local zenith), from operational models obtained from Copernicus Marine Services, but also from satellite imagery (MODIS-AQUA satellite - Level 3 mapped product, 8 day average, 4km resolution) at https://oceandata.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov. The zone corresponding to the station position and date was recovered either by taking a two pixel buffer around the given location (total zone being a 5 by 5 pixels square of 20 km side) and in order to propose an alternative measure in the inevitable case where clouds were present an alternative 12 pixels buffer was taken (total zone being a 25 by 25 pixels square of 100 km side). All data were provided as mean, standard deviation (sd) together with 0.05, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75 and 0.95 quartiles