EDMED Details

General

Dataset Name

Phytoplankton data collected in Adriatic open waters during ASCOP project (1979-84, 1989)

Data Holding Centre

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

Time Period

from 1979 to 1984 (Phase 1), 1989 (Phase 2)

Start Date

1979-01-01

End Date

1989-12-31

Project

Adriatic Scientific COoperation Program

Geographic Area

Geocoverage

21 standard stations (4 transects) covering the region of international waters in the Northern Adriatic Sea and 1 transect (Pescara-Sibenik) in the Middle Adriatic Sea as part of the standard grid stations of the ASCOP Monitoring Program

Geographic Box (south,north,west,east)

40, 13, 20, 46

Sea Area

Mediterranean Sea

Adriatic Sea

Observations

Parameters

Phytoplankton taxonomic abundance in water bodies

Instruments

Description

Summary

The phytoplankton distribution was analyzed in different conditions of thermohaline stratification 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 data were controlled, analyzed and worked up by the originator who holds the principal quality control responsibility. The phytoplankton samples were collected during 5 seasonal cruises. 2 hydrographic surveys were concerned with the summer of 1983 and 1984; 2 the autumn of 1979 and 1989; 1 the spring of 1983. All cruises were concerned with the Northern Adriatic (4 transects), whereas the cruises spring 1983, summer 1984 and autumn 1989 comprise also the transect Pescara-Sibenik in the Middle Adriatic. The data are stored per station, per cruise and ship (institution). Approximately 90% of stations coverage is concurrently with the CTD stations. The data set comprises over 110 stations where more than 260 samples have been collected at surface and on the bottom. The transect Pescara-Sibenik occupied during the autumn cruise 1989 was monitored at 10 levels. The data are supplied by 3 Italian institutions: CNR, Istituto di Biologia del Mare, Venezia; Dipartimento di Biologia, Universita' di Trieste; Dipartimento di Biologia, Universita' di Padova.

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." 1986-06-01, 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

1081

Creation Date

2014-10-02

Revision Date

2012-02-03