EDMED Details

General

Dataset Name

ATOS: Large historical hydrographic dataset collected in the Adriatic Sea from 1911 to 1983

Data Holding Centre

Institute of Marine Science (ISMAR) - Ancona

Time Period

from 1911 to 1914 and from 1947 to 1983

Start Date

1911-01-01

End Date

1983-12-31

Project

Geographic Area

Geocoverage

Adriatic Sea

Geographic Box (south,north,west,east)

40, 12, 20, 46

Sea Area

Mediterranean Sea

Adriatic Sea

Observations

Parameters

Salinity of the water column

Temperature of the water column

Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column

Instruments

discrete water samplers

Description

Summary

EU-MAST/MARMAIDS II - Bottle sampling in the periods from 1911-14 and 1947-83 (85-90 % of the data); CTD casts after 1983. Dissolved oxygen determination from Winkler method. All stations with less than 15 m bottom depth and on coastal Italian areas were omitted. A quality check was performed to eliminate obvious mistakes.

Originator

Institute of Marine Science (ISMAR) - Ancona

References

"Artegiani A., Bregant, D., Paschini, E., Pinardi, N., Raicich, F., Russo, A., 1997. The Adriatic Sea general circulation. Part I: Air-Sea interaction and water mass structure. Part II: baroclinic circulation structure. J. Phys. Oceanogr., vol. 27, pp. 1492-1532." 1997-06-01, unknown, unknown

Availability

Availability

unknown

Organization

Institute of Marine Science (ISMAR) - Ancona

Contact

Artegiani Antonio

Address

Institute of Marine Science (ISMAR) - Ancona

Ancona

60125

Italy

irpem@irpem.an.cnr.it

http://www.ismaran.it/ismaran

Administration

Local identifier

1262

Creation Date

2014-10-02

Revision Date

2013-07-26