EDMED Details

General

Dataset Name

Moored current meter data collected during the Northern Adriatic Dynamics Experiment (NADEX 1990)

Data Holding Centre

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

Time Period

May 1990

Start Date

1990-01-01

End Date

1990-12-31

Project

Adriatic Scientific COoperation Program

Geographic Area

Geocoverage

5 moorings in the Northern Adriatic Sea, on the border of a CTD grid station of about 30 square kilometres, centred in the position of 45deg N and 13deg E (off the mouth of the Po river)

Geographic Box (south,north,west,east)

45, 13, 13, 45

Sea Area

Mediterranean Sea

Adriatic Sea

Observations

Parameters

Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents)

Temperature of the water column

Electrical conductivity of the water column

Vertical velocity of the water column (currents)

Instruments

Description

Summary

The marine current measurements were performed in the framework of a special multidisciplinary Dynamics Experiment carried out in the Northern Adriatic Sea (NADEX), scheduled to determine the Adriatic small scale hydrological features, dynamics, and modelling. The moorings were deployed with three meters at 10 m, 22 m and near the bottom. The time series have been recorded at sampling intervals of 5 minutes. The data are fully quality controlled for gaps, spikes and spurious data. One meter at 10 m depth was damaged by a fishing boat and presents only valid data of water temperature and current direction. The datasets are stored as a raw time series for each current meter (1 data cycle of temperature, speed and direction every 5 minutes) covering approximately a spanning time of 13 days, for a total amount of 195 days.

Originator

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

References

Response of the Adriatic Sea to the bora and sirocco forcing 1994-06-01, Orli M., M. Kuzmi and Z. Pasari, Continental Shelf Res., vol. 14 (1), 91-116

Availability

Availability

by negotiation

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

1014

Creation Date

2014-10-02

Revision Date

2013-07-25