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Articles | Volume 10, issue 1
Articles | Volume 10, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-627-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-627-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 10, issue 1
28 Mar 2018
 | 28 Mar 2018

Hydrography and biogeochemistry dedicated to the Mediterranean BGC-Argo network during a cruise with RV Tethys 2 in May 2015

Vincent Taillandier, Thibaut Wagener, Fabrizio D'Ortenzio, Nicolas Mayot, Hervé Legoff, Joséphine Ras, Laurent Coppola, Orens Pasqueron de Fommervault, Catherine Schmechtig, Emilie Diamond, Henry Bittig, Dominique Lefevre, Edouard Leymarie, Antoine Poteau, and Louis Prieur

Abstract. We report on data from an oceanographic cruise, covering western, central and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, on the French research vessel Tethys 2 in May 2015. This cruise was fully dedicated to the maintenance and the metrological verification of a biogeochemical observing system based on a fleet of BGC-Argo floats. During the cruise, a comprehensive data set of parameters sensed by the autonomous network was collected. The measurements include ocean currents, seawater salinity and temperature, and concentrations of inorganic nutrients, dissolved oxygen and chlorophyll pigments. The analytical protocols and data processing methods are detailed, together with a first assessment of the calibration state for all the sensors deployed during the cruise. Data collected at stations are available at https://doi.org/10.17882/51678 and data collected along the ship track are available at https://doi.org/10.17882/51691.

How to cite. Taillandier, V., Wagener, T., D'Ortenzio, F., Mayot, N., Legoff, H., Ras, J., Coppola, L., Pasqueron de Fommervault, O., Schmechtig, C., Diamond, E., Bittig, H., Lefevre, D., Leymarie, E., Poteau, A., and Prieur, L.: Hydrography and biogeochemistry dedicated to the Mediterranean BGC-Argo network during a cruise with RV Tethys 2 in May 2015, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 627–641, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-627-2018, 2018.
Received: 23 Oct 2017 – Discussion started: 06 Nov 2017 – Revised: 14 Feb 2018 – Accepted: 23 Feb 2018 – Published: 28 Mar 2018
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We report on data from an oceanographic cruise, covering western, central and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea. This cruise was fully dedicated to the maintenance and the metrological verification of a biogeochemical observing system based on a fleet of BGC-Argo floats.
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