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Dataset Name: Current and CTD measurements in the Adriatic Sea during the Italian PRISMA programme, Phase 1 (1995-1996)
Data Holding Centre: OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), Division of Oceanography
Time Period: From May 1995 to February 1996 (continuous measurements)
Start Date: 1995-01-01
End Date: 1996-12-31
Project: PRISMA - National Research Program for the Adriatic Sea

Geocoverage: Parallel transects over the Adriatic Sea: the Rimini transect, the Giulianova transect, the Gargano transect and the Otranto transect
Geographic Box (south,north,west,east): 39, 12, 20, 46
Sea Area: Mediterranean Sea; Adriatic Sea

Parameters: Temperature of the water column; Variable fluorescence parameters; Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column; Vertical velocity of the water column (currents); Salinity of the water column; Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents)
Instruments: CTD; fluorometers; current profilers

Summary: Eulerian and lagrangian current measurements both by 10 mooring arrays of ACM and RCM currentmeters and ship-mounted ADCP current profiles were collected with the R/V Thetis togheter with CTD casts. Contemporary, in the framework of PRISMA sub-project 'Longitudinal fluxes', four seasonal multidisciplinary cruises (May, August, November 1995, and February 1996) were conducted with R/V Urania. The main objective was the study of the seasonal time-scale variability of the water and the biogeochemical fluxes. The moored current meters were deployed through four significant transversal sections of the Adriatic Sea. A basin-wide survey with ship-borrne ADCP was carried out on a continuous basis from May 1995 to February 1996. 300 CTD stations were covered in the same period alond the transversal transects.
Originator: OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), Division of Oceanography
References: "Gacic, M., Civitarese G. and Ursella L. (1999). Spatial and seasonal variability of water and biogeochemical fluxes in the Adriatic Sea. In: The Eastern Mediterranean as a Laboratory Basin for the Assessment of Contrasting Ecosystem, Kluwer Accademic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands, P.Malanotte-Rizzoli and V.N. Eremeev (eds.), 335-357." 1999-06-01, unknown, unknown

Availability: unknown
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/