EDMED Details

General

Dataset Name

CTD station data collected in the Middle Adriatic Sea during the Italian PRISMA programme, Phase 1 (1995-1996)

Data Holding Centre

Institute of Marine Science (ISMAR) - Ancona

Time Period

From May 1995 to February 1996 (four seasonal cruise)

Start Date

1995-01-01

End Date

1996-12-31

Project

PRISMA - National Research Program for the Adriatic Sea

Geographic Area

Geocoverage

Parallel transects in the Middle Adriatic Sea (the Giulianova transects)

Geographic Box (south,north,west,east)

42, 13, 16, 44

Sea Area

Mediterranean Sea

Adriatic Sea

Observations

Parameters

Salinity of the water column

Temperature of the water column

Variable fluorescence parameters

Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column

Light extinction and diffusion coefficients

Instruments

fluorometers

CTD

transmissometers

discrete water samplers

Description

Summary

Four multidisciplinary seasonal hydrological surveys with CTD casts and water sampling were conducted every three months (May, August, November 1995, and February 1996) in the framework of PRISMA sub-project 'Longitudinal fluxes' in the Northern Adriatic, in the Central Adriatic and in the Southern Adriatic respectively. The main objective was the study of the seasonal time-scale variability of the water and the biogeochemical fluxes, through four significant transversal sections of the Adriatic Sea. Water sampling for the determination of nutrients and dissolved/particulate elements were collected, contemporary with marine currents measurements both by mooring arrays of currentmeters and ship-mounted ADCP current profiles. The original CTD data were processed, controlled and analysed by the originators who hold the principal quality control responsibility. The high resolution vertical profiles of each station were averaged over 1 dbar pressure interval. The salinity has been computed according to the 1978 Practical Salinity Scale. The averaged data are stored per cruise and ship (institution). The entire data set comprises 956 vertical profiles and includes data supplied by three institutions: - Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS, Trieste, Italy (Gargano and Otranto transects); - CNR, Istituto di Scienze Marine (Sezione di Ancona), Italy (Giulianova transects); - CNR, Istituto di Scienze Marine (Sezione di Venezia), Italy (Rimini transects). The Middle Adriatic data set comprises 214 vertical prifiles related to four seasonal cruises by ISMAR Ancona.

Originator

Institute of Marine Science (ISMAR) - Ancona

References

Seasonal Variability of the Hydrography in the Adriatic Sea: Water Mass Properties and Circulation. In: Mediterranean Ecosystems: Structure and Processes, F.M. Faranda, L.Guglielmo, G.Spezie (eds) 2001-06-01, Manca, B., P. Franco, E. Paschini, Springer-Verlag Italia, ISBN 88-470-0114-5

Availability

Availability

unrestricted

Organization

Institute of Marine Science (ISMAR) - Ancona

Contact

Artegiani Antonio

Address

Institute of Marine Science (ISMAR) - Ancona

Ancona

60125

Italy

irpem@irpem.an.cnr.it

http://www.ismaran.it/ismaran

Administration

Local identifier

1017

Creation Date

2014-10-02

Revision Date

2013-07-26