Details of Thermohaline Staircases in the Tyrrhenian Sea Experimental data-set (2003-2016)

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Title of datasetThermohaline Staircases in the Tyrrhenian Sea Experimental data-set (2003-2016)
Narrative summary of datasetThis time series has been collected by the Italian Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) in a station located at about 3500 m depth in the central Tyrrhenian Sea (39° 46.85 N, 011° 53.00 E) over the period 2003-2016. The dataset contains 21 hydrological profiles (Pressure (dbar), Temperature (ITS-90, °C) and Salinity) performed on average every six months, with a lack of data in the period 2007-2010. The dataset is highly homogeneous in technical characteristics and quality, since the instrument used to collect most of the data is the same CTD probe (SBE911plus) and data quality procedures have been performed. The calibration of the probe was performed at the NATO-CMRE Centre of La Spezia up to 2014, and by the manufacturer (SeaBird) or by the Oceanographic Calibration Center of OGS in Trieste thereafter. To verify the post calibration performance of the probe, redundant sensors were often used for both temperature and salinity measurements, and on board salinity analysis of the water samples was performed using a Guideline Autosal or a Portasal salinometer. Raw data are post-processed and averaged at 1 dbar. Until 2014, the data were collected by the Italian R/V URANIA, those of 2015 by the Italian R/V MINERVA UNO, and those of 2016 by the Spanish  R/V Angeles Alvarino. This is the longest time series (fourteen years) of temperature and salinity of thermohaline staircases due to double diffusion in the salt finger regime ever observed. Parameters included in the .csv data file: Cruise name (Cruise) Time as julian days (Time_julian day) Latitude Longitude Pressure in dbar (Pressure_dbar) Practical Salinity (Salinity) Temperature ITS-90 in °C (Temperature_ITS-90_°C) Important Note: This submission has been initially submitted to SEA scieNtific Open data Edition (SEANOE) publication service and received the recorded DOI. The metadata elements have been further processed (refined) in EMODnet Ingestion Service in order to conform with the Data Submission Service specifications.
Start date2003-03-29
End date2016-08-20

Responsible organisations

CountryFrance
Organisation nameIfremer, Scientific Information Systems for the sea
Role of organisationDataset Holding Organisation
CountryFrance
Organisation nameSEA scieNtific Open data Edition
Role of organisationPublisher
How to citeBorghini Mireno, Durante Sara, Ribotti Alberto, Schroeder Katrin, Sparnocchia Stefania (2019). Thermohaline Staircases in the Tyrrhenian Sea Experimental data-set (2003-2016). SEANOE. https://doi.org/10.17882/58697 In addition to properly cite this dataset, it would be appreciated that the following work(s) be cited too, when using this dataset in a publication : Durante S., Schroeder K., Mazzei L., Pierini S., Borghini M., Sparnocchia S. (2019). Permafnent Thermohaline Staircases in the Tyrrhenian Sea. Geophysical Research Letters, -. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL081747

Dataset availability

Original dataset download linkhttps://cloud.emodnet-ingestion.eu/index.php/s/0tBfPjSveDoXCOz
Dataset formatDelimited
Public accessNo limitations
License for useCC0 1.0
TypeDataset
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.17882/58697
Link to dataset after processing by data centrehttps://cdi.seadatanet.org/search/welcome.php?query=1785&query_code={84AE4A94-E68F-4E66-AECF-DF6052C5D391}

Locations

Map
Latitude north boundary39.78
Longitude east boundary11.88
Latitude south boundary39.78
Longitude west boundary11.88
Sea areaNorth Atlantic Ocean
Mediterranean Region
Mediterranean Sea
Mediterranean Sea, Western Basin
Tyrrhenian Sea
Mediterranean Sea, Eastern Basin
Adriatic Sea
Atlantic Ocean
European mainland
Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)

Data types, collection and processing

Observation typeinapplicable
ParameterSalinity of the water column
Temperature of the water column
Instrument typeCTD
Instrument nameSea-Bird SBE 911plus CTD
Data quality processing informationProcessed data

Process information

Submitting organisationCNR, National Research Council, Institute of Marine Science (Trieste)
Submission identifier (UUID)a53ad03f-3538-5383-3836-000000058697
Date of dataset creation2019-01-01
Date of dataset revision2021-02-26
Date of metadata creation2021-2-27
Date of metadata latest revision2021-03-19
Date of publishing2021-04-06
Date of processed dataset publication2021-07-14
Processing data centreNational Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS, Division of Oceanography
Summary record-ID777