Ribotti, Alberto and Borghini, Mireno (2008) Cruise Report: MedCO08. Technical Report. Alberto Ribotti, Napoli, Italia. (Unpublished)
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Abstract
This report presents all preliminary results obtained during the oceanographic cruise named MedCO08, carried out from November 3rd to 24th 2008, on board the R/V URANIA in the central and western Mediterranean basins. The cruise has been planned to reach the following objectives: 1. Water masses characteristics and biological structures Several measurements along key sections localised inside and on the board of the basin in order to define the main paths of the circulation and the physical-chemical-biological properties (temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, nutrients, chlorophyll, phytoplankton, primary production, etc) of the water upper, intermediate and deep central (western Ionian sea and Sicily Strait) and western (Tyrrhenian sea, Algerian basin, Alboran sea) Mediterranean water masses. Check of the diffusion of the new deep waters found during the cruise in 2005 in the same areas. 2. Validation of numerical models Measurements will be used to validate three numerical circulation models implemented at IAMC-CNR in Oristano (SCRM and WMRM) and at ISMAR-CNR in La Spezia (box model). The two models at IAMC-CNR in Oristano are then operational models as they give daily forecasts for the following 5 days of the main oceanographic parameters (temperature, salinity, water and surface heat fluxes, currents, waves). 3. Methodological developments • Measurements of velocity profiles by Lowered ADCP; • Measurements of temperature profiles by XBT T5, T7 e DEEP-BLUE; • Periodical maintenance of currentmeters moored in the western Ionian sea and Corsica Channel; • Comparison of different methods for the quantification of Chlorophyll and calibration of the fluorometer coupled with the multiparametric probe through several photochemical techniques.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Technical Report) |
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| Additional Information: | This report presents all preliminary results obtained during the oceanographic cruise named MedCO08, carried out from November 3rd to 24th 2008, on board the R/V URANIA in the central and western Mediterranean basins. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | oceanography, Mediterranean, circulation, modelling |
| Subjects: | 500 Scienze naturali e Matematica > 500.2 Scienze fisiche 500 Scienze naturali e Matematica > 550 Scienze della Terra |
| Depositing User: | Dr Alberto Ribotti |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Feb 2010 |
| Last Modified: | 20 May 2010 12:02 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/1252 |
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