Articles | Volume 15, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-4651-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-4651-2023
Data description paper
 | 
19 Oct 2023
Data description paper |  | 19 Oct 2023

A Mediterranean drifter dataset

Alberto Ribotti, Antonio Bussani, Milena Menna, Andrea Satta, Roberto Sorgente, Andrea Cucco, and Riccardo Gerin

Related authors

Hydrology of the seas around the Sardinia, western Mediterranean
Roberto Sorgente, Federica Pessini, Aldo Francis Drago, Alberto Ribotti, Simona Genovese, Marco Barra, Angelo Perilli, Giovanni Quattrocchi, Andrea Cucco, Ignazio Fontana, Giovanni Giacalone, Gualtiero Basilone, and Angelo Bonanno
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2193,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2193, 2023
Preprint withdrawn
Short summary
Twenty-one years of hydrological data acquisition in the Mediterranean Sea: quality, availability, and research
Alberto Ribotti, Roberto Sorgente, Federica Pessini, Andrea Cucco, Giovanni Quattrocchi, and Mireno Borghini
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 14, 4187–4199, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4187-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4187-2022, 2022
Short summary
Dissolved inorganic nutrients in the western Mediterranean Sea (2004–2017)
Malek Belgacem, Jacopo Chiggiato, Mireno Borghini, Bruno Pavoni, Gabriella Cerrati, Francesco Acri, Stefano Cozzi, Alberto Ribotti, Marta Álvarez, Siv K. Lauvset, and Katrin Schroeder
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 1985–2011, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1985-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1985-2020, 2020
Short summary
Quality assurance and control on hydrological data off western Sardinia (2000–2004), western Mediterranean
Alberto Ribotti, Roberto Sorgente, and Mireno Borghini
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 1287–1294, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1287-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1287-2020, 2020
Short summary
Hydrodynamic modelling of coastal seas: the role of tidal dynamics in the Messina Strait, Western Mediterranean Sea
Andrea Cucco, Giovanni Quattrocchi, Antonio Olita, Leopoldo Fazioli, Alberto Ribotti, Matteo Sinerchia, Costanza Tedesco, and Roberto Sorgente
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 16, 1553–1569, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-1553-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-1553-2016, 2016
Short summary

Related subject area

Domain: ESSD – Ocean | Subject: Physical oceanography
A global daily mesoscale front dataset from satellite observations: in situ validation and cross-dataset comparison
Qinwang Xing, Haiqing Yu, Wei Yu, Xinjun Chen, and Hui Wang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 2831–2848, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2831-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2831-2025, 2025
Short summary
ASM-SS: the first quasi-global high-spatial-resolution coastal storm surge dataset reconstructed from tide gauge records
Lianjun Yang, Taoyong Jin, and Weiping Jiang
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 2793–2807, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2793-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2793-2025, 2025
Short summary
Expendable bathythermograph (XBT) data collected along the Southern Ocean chokepoint between Aotearoa / New Zealand and Antarctica, 1994–2024
Giuseppe Aulicino, Antonino Ian Ferola, Laura Fortunato, Giorgio Budillon, Pasquale Castagno, Pierpaolo Falco, Giannetta Fusco, Naomi Krauzig, Giancarlo Spezie, Enrico Zambianchi, and Yuri Cotroneo
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 2625–2640, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2625-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2625-2025, 2025
Short summary
HHU24SWDSCS: a shallow-water depth model over island areas in the South China Sea retrieved from satellite-derived bathymetry
Yihao Wu, Hongkai Shi, Dongzhen Jia, Ole Baltazar Andersen, Xiufeng He, Zhicai Luo, Yu Li, Shiyuan Chen, Xiaohuan Si, Sisu Diao, Yihuang Shi, and Yanglin Chen
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 2463–2488, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2463-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2463-2025, 2025
Short summary
Gap-filled sub-surface mooring dataset off Western Australia during 2010–2023
Toan Bui, Ming Feng, and Christopher C. Chapman
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 1693–1705, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-1693-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-1693-2025, 2025
Short summary

Cited articles

Barbanti, R., Iungwirth, R., and Poulain, P.-M.: Stima dell'accuratezza del drifter tipo CODE con GPS nella determinazione della posizione geografica, Rel. 32/2005 – OGA/20, 16 pp, https://argo.ogs.it/pub/barbanti_etal05.pdf (last access: 5 October 2023), 2005. 
Bolado-Penagos, M., González, C. J., Chioua, J., Sala, I., Gomiz-Pascual, J. J., Vázquez, A., and Bruno, M.: Submesoscale processes in the coastal margins of the Strait of Gibraltar. The Trafalgar – Alboran connection, Prog. Oceanog., 118, 102219, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2019.102219, 2020. 
Callies, U., Groll, N., Horstmann, J., Kapitza, H., Klein, H., Maßmann, S., and Schwichtenberg, F.: Surface drifters in the German Bight: model validation considering windage and Stokes drift, Ocean Sci., 13, 799–827, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-799-2017, 2017. 
Centurioni, L. R., Niiler, P. P., and Lee, D.-K.: Near-surface circulation in the South China Sea during the winter monsoon, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L06605, https://doi.org/10.1029/2008GL037076, 2009. 
Copernicus Marine In Situ Tac Data Management Team: Copernicus Marine In Situ NetCDF format manual, https://doi.org/10.13155/59938, 2023. 
Download
Short summary
Over 100 experiments were realized between 1998 and 2022 in the Mediterranean Sea using surface coastal and offshore Lagrangian drifters. Raw data were initially unified and pre-processed. Then, the integrity of the received data packages was checked and incomplete ones were discarded. Deployment information was retrieved and integrated into the PostgreSQL database. Data were interpolated at defined time intervals, providing a dataset of 158 trajectories, available in different formats.
Share
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint