This site uses technical, analytics and third-party cookies.
By continuing to browse, you accept the use of cookies.

EDMED Details

General

Dataset Name
CTD station data collected in the Adriatic, Ionian and Eastern Mediterranean Sea during the POEM project (1985-1995)
Data Holding Centre
OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), Division of Oceanography
Time Period
from 1985 to 1990 (Phase 1), from 1991 to 1993 (Phase 2), 1995 (Liwex experiment)
Start Date
1985-01-01
End Date
1995-12-31
Project
Physical Oceanography of Eastern Mediterranean

Geographic Area

Geocoverage
Grid of CTD stations with a step of 1/2 degree both in longitude and in latitude, covering the following areas: Sicily Channel, Ionian Sea, Southern Adriatic and Levantine Basin. In some zones the grid step has a finer resolution.
Geographic Box (south,north,west,east)
30, 10, 36, 44
Sea Area
Mediterranean Sea
Mediterranean Sea, Eastern Basin
Ionian Sea
Adriatic Sea

Observations

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

Description

Summary
The CTD data were collected in the framework of a research program scheduled to reach a comprehensive knowledge of the physical, chemical and biological oceanography of the Eastern Mediterranean. The original CTD 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. The high resolution data of each station were averaged over 1 dbar pressure interval. The salinity has been computed according to the practical salinity scale of 1978. The data are stored as depth series per station, per cruise and ship (institution). The CTD stations were occupied during synoptic seasonal cruises, internationally coordinated and covering the whole above mentioned area: POEM01-ON85 (4 cruises), 142 stations; POEM02-MA86 (7 cruises), 334 stations; POEM03-ON86 (3 cruises), 157 stations; POEM04-MA87 (5 cruises), 223 stations; POEM05-AS87 (5 cruises), 427 stations; POEM-IT (86-90) (8 cruises), 642 stations; POEMBC-O91 (5 cruises), 393 stations; POEMBC-A92 (2 cruises), 229 stations; POEMBC-A93 (1 crociera), 72 stations; POEMBC-LIWEX95 (3 phases), 148 stations. The data set comprises about 2800 vertical profiles and includes data supplied by the following institutions: a) Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Haifa (Israel); b) Institute of Marine Sciences (METU), Erdemli (Turkey); c) National Center for Marine Research, Athens (Greece); d) Osservatorio Geofisico Sperimentale, Trieste (Italy); e) Istituto Ricerche Pesca Marittima, Ancona (Italy); f) Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Universita', Roma (Italy); g) Istituto Universitario Navale, Napoli (Italy); h) Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Split (Croatia); i) Ministry of Agriculture - Fisheries Department, Nicosia (Cyprus).
Originator
OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), Division of Oceanography
References
Physical Oceanography of the Eastern Mediterranean: an overview and research plan. 1984-06-01, unknown, Unesco Reports in Marine Science no. 30
Physical Oceanography of the Eastern Mediterranean (POEM): A Research Programme. 1985-06-01, unknown, Unesco Reports in Marine Science no. 35, 1985
Physical Oceanography of the Eastern Mediterranean (POEM): Initial Results. 1987-06-01, unknown, Unesco Reports in Marine Science no. 44, 1987.
Physical Oceanography of the Eastern Mediterranean (POEM): The intercalibrated POEM data set and the emerging picture of the circulation. 1990-06-01, unknown, Unesco Reports in Marine Science no. 53, 1990
Physical Oceanography of the Eastern Mediterranean (POEM): The new phenomenology of the Eastern Mediterranean 1991-06-01, unknown, Unesco Reports in Marine Science no. 55, 1991

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
1016
Creation Date
2014-10-02
Revision Date
2013-07-26

Associated datasets

Associated datasets
Id Name Roscop Code Start Date End Date
74 POEM01-85 (OGS-I) IO48198585004 10/17/85 11/11/85
81 POEMI3-88 (OGS-I) IO48198888008 7/15/88 7/31/88
89 POEM05-AS87 (OGS-I) IO48198787003 8/18/87 9/13/87
130 POEM-BC-LIWEX 95 IO48199595006 1/3/95 2/3/95
320 POEM-BC-O91 (OGS-I) IO48199191002 10/2/91 10/24/91
364 POEM-BC-A92 (OGS-I) IO48199292001 4/24/92 5/17/92
470 POEM-BC-LIWEX 95 IO48199595006 1/3/95 2/3/95
633 POEM02-MA86 (OGS-I) IO48198686002 3/27/86 4/4/86
635 POEM03-ON86 (OGS-I) IO48198686004 11/1/86 11/14/86