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EDMED Details

General

Dataset Name
CTD station data collected in Adriatic open waters during ASCOP project (1979-84, 1989-91)
Data Holding Centre
OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), Division of Oceanography
Time Period
from 1979 to 1984 (Phase 1), from 1989 to 1991 (Phase 2)
Start Date
1979-01-01
End Date
1991-12-31
Project
Adriatic Scientific COoperation Program

Geographic Area

Geocoverage
64 CTD stations (8 transects) covering the region of international waters in the Northern and Middle Adriatic sea up to transect Gargano-Split as part of the standard grid stations of the ASCOP Monitoring Program. Additional finer grid of 60 stations was located off the mouths of the Po.
Geographic Box (south,north,west,east)
40, 13, 20, 46
Sea Area
Mediterranean Sea
Adriatic Sea

Observations

Parameters
Salinity of the water column
Temperature of the water column
Secchi disk depth
Air pressure
Air temperature
Atmospheric humidity
Wind strength and direction
Instruments
CTD
discrete water samplers
salinometers

Description

Summary
The CTD data were collected in the framework of the multidisciplinary monitoring program of the Adriatic Sea scheduled to determine the current state of the ecosystem and pollution in relation to its basic hydrological features and dynamics. The original CTD/STD data were controlled, analyzed and worked up by the originator who holds the principal quality control responsibility. Nevertheless before the dataset has been considered as part of the database it has been submitted to a pre-processing procedure and the preliminary data products were submitted to the group of experts charged of final data validation and reporting. The high resolution vertical profiles of each station were averaged over 1 dbar pressure interval. The salinity has been computed according to the practical salinity scale of 1978. The averaged data are stored as depth series per station, per cruise and ship (institution). The CTD stations were occupied during 9 seasonal cruises. Additional intercalibration stations were carried out concurrently with different ships. 3 hydrographic surveys were concerned with the summer of 1983, 1984, 1991; 3 the autumn of 1979, 1989, 1990; 2 the spring of 1983, 1990; 1 cruise the later winter of 1991. The autumn cruise of 1979 covered only the Northern Adriatic, the other cruises covered the Northern, Middle and Southern Adriatic Sea. 2 cruises (spring 1990 and later winter 1991) were concerned with the special Dynamic Experiment in the Northern Adriatic Sea (NADEX). The data set comprises over 870 vertical profiles and includes data supplied by 3 Italian institutions: CNR, Istituto di Biologia del Mare, Venezia; CNR, Istituto di Ricerche sulla Pesca Marittima, Ancona; Osservatorio Geofisico Sperimentale, Trieste.
Originator
OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), Division of Oceanography
References
"Common Report of Activities carried out from July 1979 to October 1980 in the framework of the Italian-Yugoslav Program for the Protection of the Adriatic Sea. Printed by OGS, Trieste, March 1982. " 1982-06-01, unknown, unknown
"Common Report of Activities carried out from 1980 to 1984 in the framework of the Italian-Yugoslav Program for the Protection of the Adriatic Sea. Printed by OGS, Trieste, December 1985. " 1985-06-01, unknown, unknown
" Italian Data Reports, Cruises ASCOP 2, 3 and 4 (6 volumes). Printed by OGS, Trieste, December 1985. " 1985-06-01, unknown, unknown
"Italian Data Reports, Cruise ASCOP 14 (2 volumes). Printed by OGS, Trieste, June 1991. " 1991-06-01, unknown, unknown
"Proceedings of the ASCOP Symposium 'Oceanographic Condition and Pollution Level of the Northern and Middle Adriatic Sea', Trieste, June 9-10, 1986. Bollettino di Oceanologia teorica ed applicata, Numero speciale, 1989." 1989-06-01, unknown, unknown

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
1012
Creation Date
2014-10-02
Revision Date
2013-07-25

Associated datasets

Associated datasets
Id Name Roscop Code Start Date End Date
39 ASCOP 2 (OGS) IO48198383003 4/28/83 5/13/83
40 ASCOP2 IO48198383004 5/6/83 5/8/83
41 ASCOP 3 (OGS) IO48198383005 8/18/83 9/8/83
42 ASCOP3 IO48198383006 8/23/83 8/29/83
43 ASCOP 4 (OGS) IO48198484002 7/28/84 8/14/84
82 ASCOP14 IO48198989001 10/28/89 11/10/89
149 ASCOP1 (OGS) IO48197979013 10/29/79 11/9/79
293 ASCOP 15 (IBM-I) IO48199090007 5/7/90 5/7/90
294 ASCOP 15 (IRPEM-I) IO48199090008 5/7/90 5/12/90
295 ASCOP 15 (OGS-I) IO48199090001 5/5/90 5/18/90
296 ASCOP 18 (OGS-I) IO48199090003 10/24/90 10/28/90
317 ASCOP 19 (OGS-I) IO48199191001 3/23/91 3/28/91
318 ASCOP 20 (OGS-I) IO48199191003 10/26/91 11/1/91
937 EASC IO48198989005 10/31/89 11/2/89