EDMED Details

General

Dataset Name

OTRANTO: Chemical measurements in the Strait of Otranto (1994- 95)

Data Holding Centre

OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), Division of Oceanography

Time Period

from February 1994 to May 1995

Start Date

1994-01-01

End Date

1995-12-31

Project

Hydrodynamics and Geochemical Fluxes in the Strait of Otranto

Geographic Area

Geocoverage

a grid of stations covering the strait area, ranging from 39deg 30'N to 41deg N

Geographic Box (south,north,west,east)

39, 18, 21, 41

Sea Area

Mediterranean Sea

Ionian Sea

Adriatic Sea

Observations

Parameters

Nitrate concentration parameters in the water column

Ammonium concentration parameters in the water column

Nitrite concentration parameters in the water column

Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column

Particulate total and organic nitrogen concentrations in the water column

Phosphate concentration parameters in the water column

Silicate concentration parameters in the water column

Particulate total and organic phosphorus concentrations in the water column

Instruments

elemental analysers

titrators

autoanalysers

Description

Summary

The chemical data were collected in the frame of a research program with the following main objectives: - to improve knowledge of the chemicals distribution and their variability in the strait at seasonal and interannual time scales; - to estimate the exchange of dissolved constituents between the Adriatic and the Ionian Seas, and to evaluate their variability; - to increase understanding of the influence of the strait upon the adjacent water bodies; - to provide a consisent data set both for validation of the models and assessment of complementary programs. The original chemical data were collected, controlled, analyzed and worked up by ITTs and NCMR teams. The sample for analyses were collected from standard depths or more (up to 25 levels) in each station. The data are stored as depth series per cruise and per station. The chemical stations were occupied during 6 cruises: February-March, May, August, November 1994, February and May 1995. The data set comprises about 400 vertical profiles.

Originator

OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), Division of Oceanography

References

Hydrochemistry of the Otranto Strait. Nutrients and oxygen distributions in Winter 1994. 1994-06-01, Civitarese G., Bregant D., Luchetta A., Ruffini S., Extended Abstracts of the First Workshop of the Mediterranean Targeted Project, 91-93.

Biogeochemical exchanges in the Strait of Otranto. 1996-06-01, Civitarese G., Bregant, D., Luchetta, A., Rabitti, S., De Lazzari, A., Boldrin, A., Manca, B., Scarazzato, P., Souvermezoglou, E. and Krassakopoulou, E., Extended Abstracts of the Second Workshop of the Mediterranean Targeted Project,189-190."

Availability

Availability

unrestricted

Organization

OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), Division of Oceanography

Contact

Mosetti R.

Address

OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), Division of Oceanography

Sgonico (Trieste)

34010

Italy

rmosetti@ogs.trieste.it

http://www.ogs.trieste.it/

Administration

Local identifier

1011

Creation Date

2014-10-02

Revision Date

2013-07-26