EDMED Details

General

Dataset Name

Argo Italy - profiling float data set (2010 - onwards)

Data Holding Centre

OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), Division of Oceanography

Time Period

from 2010 onwards

Start Date

2010-07-03

End Date

Project

ARGO-ITALY

Geographic Area

Geocoverage

Mediterranean Sea, Black Seas and Southern Ocean

Geographic Box (south,north,west,east)

40, 27, 42, 47

30, -7, 37, 46

-85, -180, 180, -60

Sea Area

Black Sea

Mediterranean Sea

Southern Ocean

Observations

Parameters

Temperature of the water column

Salinity of the water column

Instruments

satellite tracking system

water temperature sensor

salinity sensor

Description

Summary

ARGO-ITALY is the Italian component of a worldwide in situ global observing system, based on autonomous profiling floats, surface drifters, gliders and ship-of-opportunity measurements. It is primarily focused on the Italian seas, and the Mediterranean and Black seas, and includes observations of temperature, salinity, currents and other water mass properties. The ARGO-ITALY objective is to provide a significant and sustained Italian contribution to the global ocean monitoring. ARGO-ITALY contributes to international programs such as Argo and Euro-Argo (global monitoring of water properties with profiling floats), GDP (Global Drifter Program to measure near-surface temperature and currents), EGO (gliding vehicles to measure water properties) and SOOP (Ship-Of-Opportunity Program to temperature profiles) have been developed to monitor the entire World Ocean on a long term basis. This dataset consist of vertical profiles of temperature and salinity acquired in Mediterranean Sea, Black Seas and Southern Ocean.

Originator

OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), Division of Oceanography

References

Argo Data Management team 2013-08-28, Thierry Carval, Bob Keeley, Yasushi Takatsuki, Takashi Yoshida, Stephen Loch, Claudia Schmid, Roger Goldsmith, Annie Wong, Rebecca McCreadie, Ann Thresher, Anh Tran, ARGO

Availability

Availability

unrestricted

Organization

OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), Division of Oceanography

Contact

Poulain Pierre-Marie

Address

OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), Division of Oceanography

Sgonico (Trieste)

34010

Italy

ppoulain@ogs.trieste.it

http://www.ogs.trieste.it/

Administration

Local identifier

1845

Creation Date

2015-11-27

Revision Date

2015-11-27