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Data description article
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22 Dec 2021
Data description article |
| 22 Dec 2021
| 22 Dec 2021
Climatological distribution of dissolved inorganic nutrients in the western Mediterranean Sea (1981–2017)
Malek Belgacem
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
CNR-ISMAR, Arsenale Tesa 104, Castello 2737/F, 30122 Venice, Italy
Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Informatica e Statistica (DAIS), Università Ca' Foscari Venezia,
Campus Scientifico, Via Torino 155, 30170 Venice, Italy
Katrin Schroeder
CNR-ISMAR, Arsenale Tesa 104, Castello 2737/F, 30122 Venice, Italy
Alexander Barth
GeoHydrodynamics and Environment Research (GHER), Freshwater and Oceanic sCiences Unit of reSearch (FOCUS), University of Liège, Quartier Agora, Allée du 6-Août, 17, Sart Tilman, 4000 Liège 1, Belgium
Charles Troupin
GeoHydrodynamics and Environment Research (GHER), Freshwater and Oceanic sCiences Unit of reSearch (FOCUS), University of Liège, Quartier Agora, Allée du 6-Août, 17, Sart Tilman, 4000 Liège 1, Belgium
Bruno Pavoni
Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Informatica e Statistica (DAIS), Università Ca' Foscari Venezia,
Campus Scientifico, Via Torino 155, 30170 Venice, Italy
Patrick Raimbault
Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (MIO) UM 110, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS-INSU, Université de Toulon, IRD, 13288, Marseille, France
Nicole Garcia
Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (MIO) UM 110, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS-INSU, Université de Toulon, IRD, 13288, Marseille, France
Mireno Borghini
CNR-ISMAR, Forte Santa Teresa, Pozzuolo di Lerici, 19032 La Spezia, Italy
Jacopo Chiggiato
CNR-ISMAR, Arsenale Tesa 104, Castello 2737/F, 30122 Venice, Italy
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Short summary
The Mediterranean Sea exhibits an anti-estuarine circulation, responsible for its low productivity. Understanding this peculiar character is still a challenge since there is no exact quantification of nutrient sinks and sources. Because nutrient in situ observations are generally infrequent and scattered in space and time, climatological mapping is often applied to sparse data in order to understand the biogeochemical state of the ocean. The dataset presented here partly addresses these issues.
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