Data Documentation

The Adriatic Sea Data Set includes data from different sources. The following list should be considered as a reduced subset of existing literature, to be used as starting point for further research.

   data references

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

Levitus, S., T. Boyer, M. Conkright, T. O'Brien, J. Antonov, C. Stephens, L. Stathoplos, D. Johnson, R. Gelfed, 1998, World Ocean Database 1998, Vol. 1: Introduction, NOAA Atlas NESDIS 18, Washington, D.C., 346 pp.

MEDATLAS Consortium, 1997, Mediterranean Hydrological Atlas of temperature and salinity. A MAST support initiative for ocean data and information management, Contr. No. MAS2-CT93-0074, Coordinating Center IFREMER/SISMER Centre de Brest, France (C. Maillard), three CD-ROM & WWW server, IFREMER Ed.

MODB Group (The), 1996, Climatological Atlas of the Mediterranean Sea. In: Scientific report of the MAST-MODB initiative for ocean data and information management, Contr. No. MAS2.0093.0075.BE, Coordinating Institution University of Liège, Belgium (P.Brasseur), 253 pp.

UNESCO 1984, Physical Oceanography of the Eastern Mediterranean: an overview and research plan. Unesco reports in marine science n. 30.

Zavatarelli, M., F. Raicich, D. Bregant, A. Russo, A. Artegiani, 1998, Climatological biogeochemical characteristics of the Adriatic Sea. J. Mar. Sys., 18, 227-263.

   data analyses and quality control

Boyer T. and S. Levitus, 1994, Quality control and processing of historical temperature, salinity and oxygen data. NOAA Technical Report NESDIS 81. Washington D.C., 64 pp.

Brasseur P., J.M. Beckers, J.M. Brankart, and R. Schoenauen, 1996, Seasonal temperature and salinity fields in the Mediterranean Sea: Climatological analyses of a historical data set. Deep-Sea Res. I, 43, 2, 159-192.

Malanotte-Rizzoli P., B.B. Manca, M. Ribera d'Alcalà, A. Theocharis, A. Bergamasco, D. Bregant, G. Budillon, G. Civitarese, D. Georgopolous, A. Michelato, E. Sansone, P. Scarazzato and E. Souvermezoglou, 1997, A synthesis of the Ionian Sea hydrography, circulation and water mass pathways during POEM-Phase I. Prog. Oceanography, 39, 153-204.

UNESCO 1992, Physical Oceanography of the Eastern Mediterranean (POEM): The scientific plan for the second phase of POEM. Unesco reports in marine science n. 57.

UNESCO 1993, CEC/DG XII, MAST and IOC/IODE, Manual of Quality Control Procedures for Validation of Oceanographic Data. IOC Manual and Guides n. 26, 436 p.