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*DATASET-NAME: Hydrographic and nutrient data collected in the Southern Adriatic Sea during the Italian PRISMA programme, Phase 1 (1995-1996)

*TIME-PERIOD:  From May 1995 to February 1996 (four seasonal cruise).

*GEOGRAPHIC-COVERAGE: Parallel transects over the steep continental slope of the Southern Adriatic Basin (the Gargano transects), and at the southern opening to the Ionian Sea (the Otranto transects), data set limits: South: 39°N; North: 42°N; West: 15°E; East: 20°E.

*PROJECT: PRISMA (Programma di RIcerca e Sperimentazione del Mare Adriatico)

*PARAMETERS: Dissolved oxygen, nutrients (nitrate, nitrite, ammonia, phosphate, silicate), pH.

*INSTRUMENTS: 24-bottles Rosette multisampler (PVC), Niskin bottles, Technicon autoanalyzer, ChemLab analyzer, automatic burette Metrohm.

*SUMMARY: Four multidisciplinary seasonal hydrological surveys with CTD casts and water sampling were conducted every three months (May, August, November 1995, and February 1996) in the framework of PRISMA sub-project "Longitudinal fluxes" in the Northern Adriatic, in the Central Adriatic and in the Southern Adriatic respectively. The main objective was the study of the seasonal time-scale variability of the water and the biogeochemical fluxes, through four significant transversal sections of the Adriatic Sea.

Water sampling for the determination of nutrients and dissolved/particulate elements were collected, contemporary with marine currents measurements both by mooring arrays of currentmeters and ship-mounted ADCP current profiles. Dissolved oxygen, nutrients (nitrate, nitrite, ammonia, phosphate, silicate), pH were determined by standard methods (Grasshoff K. et al., 1983; Strickland J.D.H. et al., 1968), controlled and worked up by ISMAR, Trieste team

The entire data set includes data supplied by three institutions:
- CNR, Istituto di Scienze Marine (Sezione di Trieste), Italy (Gargano and Otranto transects);
- CNR, Istituto di Scienze Marine (Sezione di Ancona), Italy (Giulianova transects);
- CNR, Istituto di Scienze Marine (Sezione di Venezia), Italy (Rimini transects).

The Southern Adriatic chemical data set comprises 317 vertical prifiles related to four seasonal cruises by ISMAR, Trieste.

*REFERENCE:
1) Grasshoff K. et al. (1983). Methods of seawater analysis. Verlag Chemie, Weinheim, 419 pp.

2) Strickland J.D.H. et al. (1968). A practical handbook of seawater analyses. Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Ottawa.

3) Gacic, M., Civitarese G. and Ursella L. (1999). Spatial and seasonal variability of water and biogeochemical fluxes in the Adriatic Sea. In: The Eastern Mediterranean as a Laboratory Basin for the Assessment of Contrasting Ecosystem, Kluwer Accademic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands, P.Malanotte-Rizzoli and V.N. Eremeev (eds.), 335-357.

*CENTRE: Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS, Trieste.

*STORAGE-MEDIUM: Digitised data on disc mass storage.

*AVAILABILITY: Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS charged as National Oceanographic Data Center within the IOC's IODE System. The data are distributed to scientific community within the EU-MEDAR/MEDATLAS II data archives.

*COMPLETED-BY: A. Giorgetti (agiorgetti@ogs.trieste.it)

*ENTRY-DATE: 2003-09-18


Last update 18/09/2003

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