EDMED Details
General
- Dataset Name
- Lagrangian Measurements in the Sicily Straits (1994-1999)
- Data Holding Centre
- Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Parthenope' - Istituto di Meteorologia e Oceanografia
- Time Period
- from 11/94 to 03/99
- Start Date
- 1994-01-01
- End Date
- 1999-12-31
- Project
Geographic Area
- Geocoverage
- Straits of Sicily - Ionian Sea
- Geographic Box (south,north,west,east)
- 36, 11, 20, 40
- Sea Area
- Mediterranean Sea
- Mediterranean Sea, Eastern Basin
- Ionian Sea
Observations
- Parameters
- Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents)
- Temperature of the water column
- Instruments
- satellite tracking system
Description
- Summary
- Drifter Studies in the Straits of Sicily - In the framework of a cooperative investigation carried out together with Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, CA - U.S.A., SACLANT - La Spezia IT, Stazione Zoologica 'A. Dohrn' - Napoli IT, surface drifters were regularly deployed, 4 times a year along the Sicily - Tunisia section. The trajectories cover the whole area of the Sicily Straits and the Ionian Sea, entering occasionally the Adriatic Sea and Levantine basin.
- Originator
- Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Parthenope' - Istituto di Meteorologia e Oceanografia
- References
Availability
- Availability
- by negotiation
- Organization
- Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Parthenope' - Istituto di Meteorologia e Oceanografia
- Contact
- De Stefano M.
- Address
- Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Parthenope' - Istituto di Meteorologia e Oceanografia
- Napoli
- 80133
- Italy
- destefano@nava1.uninav.it
- http://www.uninav.it
Administration
- Local identifier
- 1172
- Creation Date
- 2014-10-02
- Revision Date
- 2013-07-25