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Data description paper
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09 May 2023
Data description paper |
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Deep-water hydrodynamic observations around a cold-water coral habitat in a submarine canyon in the eastern Ligurian Sea (Mediterranean Sea)
Tiziana Ciuffardi
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
ENEA – Centro Ricerche Ambiente Marino Santa Teresa, Via S. Teresa, 19032 Lerici, La Spezia, Italy
Zoi Kokkini
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Istituto di Scienze Marine (CNR-ISMAR) Sede Secondaria di Lerici, Forte Santa Teresa s.n.c, 19032, Lerici, La Spezia, Italy
Maristella Berta
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Istituto di Scienze Marine (CNR-ISMAR) Sede Secondaria di Lerici, Forte Santa Teresa s.n.c, 19032, Lerici, La Spezia, Italy
Marina Locritani
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Via di Vigna Murata, 605 00143 Rome, Italy
Andrea Bordone
ENEA – Centro Ricerche Ambiente Marino Santa Teresa, Via S. Teresa, 19032 Lerici, La Spezia, Italy
Ivana Delbono
ENEA – Centro Ricerche Ambiente Marino Santa Teresa, Via S. Teresa, 19032 Lerici, La Spezia, Italy
Mireno Borghini
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Istituto di Scienze Marine (CNR-ISMAR) Sede Secondaria di Lerici, Forte Santa Teresa s.n.c, 19032, Lerici, La Spezia, Italy
Maurizio Demarte
Istituto Idrografico della Marina, Passo dell'Osservatorio 4, 16134 Genoa, Italy
Roberta Ivaldi
Istituto Idrografico della Marina, Passo dell'Osservatorio 4, 16134 Genoa, Italy
Federica Pannacciulli
ENEA – Centro Ricerche Ambiente Marino Santa Teresa, Via S. Teresa, 19032 Lerici, La Spezia, Italy
Anna Vetrano
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Istituto di Scienze Marine (CNR-ISMAR) Sede Secondaria di Lerici, Forte Santa Teresa s.n.c, 19032, Lerici, La Spezia, Italy
Davide Marini
Distretto Ligure delle Tecnologie Marine scrl, Viale Nicolò Fieschi 18, 19123 La Spezia, Italy
Giovanni Caprino
Distretto Ligure delle Tecnologie Marine scrl, Viale Nicolò Fieschi 18, 19123 La Spezia, Italy
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This paper presents the results of the first 2 years of the Levante Canyon Mooring, a mooring line placed since 2020 in the eastern Ligurian Sea, to study a canyon area at about 600 m depth characterized by the presence of cold-water living corals. It provides hydrodynamic and thermohaline measurements along the water column, describing a water-mass distribution coherent with previous evidence in the Ligurian Sea. The data also show a Northern Current episodic and local reversal during summer.
This paper presents the results of the first 2 years of the Levante Canyon Mooring, a mooring...
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