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Data description paper
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Data description paper |
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A Mediterranean drifter dataset
Istituto per lo studio degli impatti Antropici e Sostenibilità in ambiente marino (IAS) of CNR, 09170 Oristano, Italy
Antonio Bussani
Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale-OGS, Borgo Grotta Gigante, 42/c – 34010 Sgonico (Trieste), Italy
Milena Menna
Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale-OGS, Borgo Grotta Gigante, 42/c – 34010 Sgonico (Trieste), Italy
Andrea Satta
Istituto per lo studio degli impatti Antropici e Sostenibilità in ambiente marino (IAS) of CNR, 09170 Oristano, Italy
Roberto Sorgente
Istituto per lo studio degli impatti Antropici e Sostenibilità in ambiente marino (IAS) of CNR, 09170 Oristano, Italy
Andrea Cucco
Istituto per lo studio degli impatti Antropici e Sostenibilità in ambiente marino (IAS) of CNR, 09170 Oristano, Italy
Riccardo Gerin
Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale-OGS, Borgo Grotta Gigante, 42/c – 34010 Sgonico (Trieste), Italy
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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.
Over 100 experiments were realized between 1998 and 2022 in the Mediterranean Sea using surface...
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