EDMED Details
General
- Dataset Name
- STD, current meter and underway airborne and ship temperature data across front east of Malta (1971) during MAYFROST project
- Data Holding Centre
- SACLANT Undersea Research Centre (SACLANTCEN)
- Time Period
- May 1971
- Start Date
- 1971-01-01
- End Date
- 1971-12-31
- Project
Geographic Area
- Geocoverage
- a network of 133 stations covering the frontal system east of Malta
- Geographic Box (south,north,west,east)
- 35, 14, 16, 38
- Sea Area
- Mediterranean Sea
- Mediterranean Sea, Eastern Basin
Observations
- Parameters
- Salinity of the water column
- Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents)
- Temperature of the water column
- Horizontal platform movement
- Platform or instrument orientation
- Vertical velocity of the water column (currents)
- Instruments
- current meters
- CTD
Description
- Summary
- May Frontal Study (MAYFROST) - A cooperative program was arranged with Laboratorio per lo Studio della Dinamica delle Grandi Masse, which supplied ART instrumentation and with the US Navy Sixth Fleet, which provided a Lockeed P3 aircraft. Study of an oceanographic front east of Malta was made in May 1971 using both a ship and an airborne radiation thermometer.
- Originator
- SACLANT Undersea Research Centre (SACLANTCEN)
- References
Availability
- Availability
- unknown
- Organization
- SACLANT Undersea Research Centre (SACLANTCEN)
- Contact
- Michel Rixen
- Address
- SACLANT Undersea Research Centre (SACLANTCEN)
- La Spezia
- 19138
- Italy
- www@saclantc.nato.int
- http://www.saclantc.nato.int/
Administration
- Local identifier
- 1209
- Creation Date
- 2014-10-02
- Revision Date
- 2013-07-25