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PROTEVS-MED field experiments: Very High Resolution Hydrographic Surveys in the Western Mediterranean Sea
From 2015 to 2018 five field experiments (9 legs) have been performed in the Western Mediterranean Basin during winter or early spring. Thanks to the intensive use of a towed vehicle undulating in the upper oceanic layer between 0 and 400 meter depth (i.e. a Seasoar), a large amount of very high resolution hydrographic transects have been performed, to measure the mesoscale dynamics (slope current and its instabilities, anticyclonic eddies, sub-mesoscale coherent vortices, frontal dynamics convection events, strait outflows) and sub-mesoscale processes like stirring, mixed layer or symmetric instabilities. When available, the data were completed with velocities recorded by Vessel Mounted Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (VMADCP) and by surface salinity and temperature recorded by ThermosalinoGraph (TSG). Some CTD casts have also been performed giving the background hydrography of the deep layers. In 2017, a Moving Vessel Profiler (MVP) has been deployed to manage even higher horizontal resolution. This data set is an unprecedented opportunity to investigate the very fine scale processes as the Mediterranean Sea is known for its intense and contrasted dynamics. It should be useful for modellers (who reduce the grid size below a few hundred meters) and expect to properly catch finer scale dynamics. Likewise, theoretical work could also be illustrated by in situ evidence embedded in this data set.
Disciplines
Physical oceanography
Keywords
Western Mediterranean Sea, High Resolution Transects, (Sub)Mesoscales Observations, Eddies, Fronts
Location
44.5N, 37.5S, 15E, -1W
Devices
CTD and LADCP casts :
- presure (Sea-bird SBE-9 ; 0 at surface)
- sea water temperature (Sea-bird SBE-9; SBE 3 temperature sensor)
- sea water electrical conductivity (Sea-bird SBE-9; SBE 4 conductivity sensor)
- practical salinity units (derived computation)
- Currents velocities : RDI 150 kHz current profiler
SEASOAR transects :
- sea water temperature (Sea-bird SBE-9; SBE 3 temperature sensor)
- sea water electrical conductivity (Sea-bird SBE-9; SBE 4 conductivity sensor)
- oxygen sensor SBE-43 ; chlorophyll a WetStar WET Labs fluorometer ; optical properties sensor (WET Labs C-Star)
- practical salinity units (derived computation)
MVP200 transect : Moving Vessel Profiler equiped
- Temperature, Salinity : AML CTD
Ship Equipement :
- vmadcp : RDI Teledyne150 kHz / 38kHz.
- tsg : Seabird SBE-21
Data
File | Size | Format | Processing | Access | |
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protevsmed_swot_2018_leg2 Survey | 436 Mo | CSV , NetCDF | |||
protevsmed_swot_2018_leg2 Quicklook | 79 Mo | ||||
protevsmed_swot_2018_leg1 Survey | 94 Mo | CSV , NetCDF | |||
protevsmed_swot_2018_leg2 Quicklook | 51 Mo | ||||
protevsmed_2017_leg2 Survey | 345 Mo | CSV , NetCDF | |||
protevsmed_2017_leg2 Quicklook | 59 Mo | ||||
protevsmed_2017_leg1 Survey | 308 Mo | CSV , NetCDF | |||
protevsmed_2017_leg1 Quicklook | 38 Mo | ||||
protevsmed_2016 Survey | 256 Mo | CSV , NetCDF | |||
protevsmed_2016 Quicklook | 63 Mo | ||||
protevsmed_2015_leg2 Survey | 109 Mo | CSV , NetCDF | |||
protevsmed_2015_leg2 Quicklook | 39 Mo | ||||
protevsmed_2015_leg1 Survey | 241 Mo | CSV , NetCDF | |||
protevsmed_2015_leg1 Quicklook | 39 Mo |