EDMED Details

General

Dataset Name

ADCP Current meter data collected in the Southern Adriatic Sea and in the Otranto Strait during MATER Project

Data Holding Centre

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

Time Period

From March 1997 to July 1999

Start Date

1997-01-01

End Date

1999-12-31

Project

MEDITERRANEAN TARGETED PROJECT MTP II-MATER

Geographic Area

Geocoverage

Southern Adriatic Sea, Otranto Strait

Geographic Box (south,north,west,east)

39, 17, 20, 42

Sea Area

Mediterranean Sea

Adriatic Sea

Observations

Parameters

Temperature of the water column

Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents)

Vertical velocity of the water column (currents)

Instruments

current profilers

Description

Summary

Current meter data were collected, toghether with CTD data, within the framework of multidisciplinary studies aimed at investigating the physical, chemical and biological characteristics of the Adriatic/Ionian basin, paying particular attention to deep water spreading and vertical convection events. Original data were inspected to eliminate spikes. Subsequently, the time series of East, North and Vertical components have been reconstructed by means of autoregressive (AR) models. The archived data, averaged over one hour time intervals, may contain some missing values only in the Vertical component when the AR reconstruction failed. Quality control on the header information has been implemented before the final data-archiving following the MATER Quality Control protocol (SISMER, 1997). 3 mooring positions were maintained in the Strait of Otranto covering the whole period, recovered every 5-6 months, giving 5 time series for each position (15 total). Three additional time series were measured in the Southern Adriatic and in the Strait of Otranto.

Originator

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

References

"Maillard C., Balopoulos E., Giorgetti A., Fichaut M., Iona A., Larour M., Latrouite A., Manca B., Maudire G., Nicolas P., Sanchez-Cabeza J.-A., An integrated system for managing multidisciplinary oceanographic data collected in the Mediterranean Sea during the basin-scale research project EU/MAST-MATER (1996-2000), J. Mar. Sys. 33-34, 2002, pp. 523-538." 2002-06-01, unknown, unknown

"MATER DATA MANUAL, 1997,vol. I, general description and inventories, vers. 2.1, SISMER/1997/IS/002." 1997-06-01, unknown, unknown

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

1066

Creation Date

2014-10-02

Revision Date

2013-07-25