EDMED Details

General

Dataset Name

CTD station data collected in the Sardinia Sea during the National SIMBIOS project (2000-2003)

Data Holding Centre

CNR, Institute for the Marine and Coastal Environment (IAMC) - Oristano

Time Period

From end of May 2000 to mid April 2003 (six cruises)

Start Date

2000-01-01

End Date

2003-12-31

Project

Sistema per lo studio del Mare con Boa Integrata Offshore

Geographic Area

Geocoverage

: Transects on regular grids or transects in the Sardinia Sea and western Sardinia Channel.

Geographic Box (south,north,west,east)

37, 7, 9, 42

Sea Area

Mediterranean Sea

Tyrrhenian Sea

Observations

Parameters

Variable fluorescence parameters

Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column

Salinity of the water column

Temperature of the water column

Instruments

fluorometers

CTD

discrete water samplers

Description

Summary

Six multidisciplinary hydrological surveys with CTD casts, water sampling for the determination of nutrients, chlorophyll and DOC, ship-mounted ADCP, sub-bottom profiler were conducted in the framework of the SIMBIOS project in the Sardinia Sea and Channel in May-June 2000, March 2001, September 2001, May 2002, November 2002, and March-April 2003. The main aim was the study of the seasonal and interannual variability of the physical parameters in the water column by in situ data and model implementation and the relationship with biogeochemical parameters. From the second to the fifth cruise data were collected on a regular grid. Physical data from the second and the forth cruise were used to initialise a numerical circulation model implemented in the Sardinia Sea. The original CTD data were processed, controlled and analysed by the originators, following SBE instruction for pre-processing, 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 named MedGOO. The entire data set comprises 377vertical profiles.

Originator

CNR, Institute for the Marine and Coastal Environment (IAMC) - Oristano

References

"Ribotti A., Murru. E., Santinelli C:, Seritti A., Sorgente R. Dissolved organic carbon and hydrological characteristics in the Sardinia Sea: first observations, (2004), Oceanologica Acta, accepted " 2004-06-01, unknown, unknown

"Ribotti A., Puillat I., Sorgente R., Natale S., Mesoscale circulation in the surface layer off the southern and western Sardinian island in 2000-2002, (2004), Chemistry and Ecology, Special Issue, in press " 2004-06-01, unknown, unknown

"Sorgente R. Ribotti A., and Puillat I., Water masses and diagnostic circulation west off Sardinia from March 23rd to April 4th, 2001, In: Building the European Capacity in Operational Oceanography - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on EuroGOOS, (2003), Athens, 2-6 dicembre 2002, 100-104" 2003-06-01, unknown, unknown

"Sorgente R. Ribotti A., Puillat I., and Natale S., (2003). Hydrological characterization of the water masses in the Sardinia Sea in the period May 10-23rd 2001, In: Mare, Golfo, Lagune - Studi e ricerche, (De Falco G, Piergallini G Eds.), Editrice S'Alvure, 171-189. (in Italian)" 2003-06-01, unknown, unknown

"Murru E. and Ribotti A., Preliminary analysis of the biogeochemical characteristics of the Sardinian sea, (2001), Proceedings of the AIOL, 181-188" 2001-06-01, unknown, unknown

Availability

Availability

unknown

Organization

CNR, Institute for the Marine and Coastal Environment (IAMC) - Oristano

Contact

unknown

Address

CNR, Institute for the Marine and Coastal Environment (IAMC) - Oristano

Oristano

09170

Italy

info@imc-it.org

http://www.seaforecast.cnr.it

Administration

Local identifier

1106

Creation Date

2014-10-02

Revision Date

2013-07-26