PHYCEMED

Name: PHYCEMED
Start: 1981-04-05
End: 1981-04-29
Location: Mediterranean Sea, Western Basin

Type	Oceanographic cruise
Ship	Le Suroît
Ship owner	Ifremer
Dates	05/04/1981 - 29/04/1981
Chief scientist(s)	CHESSELET R.
	LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT - UMR 8212 Orme des Merisiers Bâtiment 714 Chemin de Saint Aubin - RD 128 91191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex +33(0)1 69 08 77 11 contact@lsce.ipsl.fr https://www.lsce.ipsl.fr/
DOI	10.17600/81000511
Objective	Chemical oceanography of pollutants in the general framework of the physics and chemistry of the Mediterranean.

Sea/Ocean

Mediterranean Sea, Western Basin

(MEDITERRANEE OUEST)

Ports

Port of departure : Toulon (France)

Port of return : Toulon (France)

Scientific Authority

LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT - UMR 8212

Orme des Merisiers

Bâtiment 714

91191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex

+33(0)1 69 08 77 11

contact@lsce.ipsl.fr

https://www.lsce.ipsl.fr/

Participating bodie(s)

CENTRE DES FAIBLES RADIOACTIVITES, Gif-sur-Yvette

Discipline(s)

ATMOSPHERE
BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
MARINE GEOSCIENCES
PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
METEOROLOGY

Code	Label	Quantity	PI
B03	Seston	9 measurements	CHESSELET R.
B06	Dissolved organic matter (inc DOC)	6	CHESSELET R.
B08	Phytoplankton	4	CHESSELET R.
B09	Zooplankton	5	CHESSELET R.
B17	Phytobenthos	7	CHESSELET R.
B18	Zoobenthos	7	CHESSELET R.
B71	Particulate organic matter (inc POC carbone	7	CHESSELET R.
B90	Other biological/fisheries meas. Dosage hydrates de carbone et lipides	6 measurements	CHESSELET R.
G04	Core soft bottom	7 cores	CHESSELET R.
G90	Other geosciences meas. Analyse des sédiments, geochronologie	7 measurements	CHESSELET R.
H09	Water bottle stations	11 stations	CHESSELET R.
H10	CTD stations	37 stations	CHESSELET R.
H11	Subsurface meas. underway (T,S)	2200	CHESSELET R.
H21	Oxygen	37 samples	CHESSELET R.
H22	Phosphate	10 stations	CHESSELET R.
H24	Nitrate	10 stations	CHESSELET R.
H25	Nitrite	9 stations	CHESSELET R.
H27	Alkalinity	6 stations	CHESSELET R.
H28	pH	6 stations	CHESSELET R.
H31	Radioactivity Plutonium	2 stations	CHESSELET R.
H32	Isotopes Tritium et C14	9 stations	CHESSELET R.
H33	Other dissolved gases CO2	6 stations	CHESSELET R.
H71	Surface measurements underway (T,S)	2200	CHESSELET R.
H90	Other chemical oceanographic meas. Chlorinite	2 stations	CHESSELET R.
M06	Routine standard measurements	2200 measurements	CHESSELET R.
P01	Suspended matter	9 stations	CHESSELET R.
P02	Trace metals	9 stations	CHESSELET R.
P03	Petroleum residues	6 stations	CHESSELET R.
P05	Other dissolved substances	6 stations	CHESSELET R.

Summary of measurements

-400 measurements of temperature, salinity, nutrients.
-100 samples for heavy metals, dissolved and particulate carbon, total CO2.
-200 samples for tritium.
-50 samples for the study of organic substances and phytoplankton.
-Various samples to study the isotopic ratios of carbon C12/C13, plutonium, C14, particulate matter by filtration.
-200 cut spectra measurements of suspended particles.
-200 measurements of geobiochemistry and mineralogy of surface sediment.
-50 aerosol samples, underway and at station : Trace metals in 14 total aerosol samples, and in size-segregated aerosol samples (6 size classes per sample), collected under wind control underway and at station.
-Trace elements and particle size distribution in 3 rainwater samples.

Positionning system

Geodetic system : VALEUR INDEFINIE

Data managed by SISMER

Bibliography

Publications

Bethoux Jp, Durrieu De Madron Xavier, Nyffeler F, Tailliez D (2002). Deep water in the western Mediterranean: peculiar 1999 and 2000 characteristics, shelf formation hypothesis, variability since 1970 and geochemical inferences. Journal Of Marine Systems, 33-34, 117-131. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0924-7963(02)00055-6

Dulac Francois, Buat-Menard Patrick, Ezat Ullah, Melki Sami, Bergametti Gilles (1989). Atmospheric input of trace metals to the western Mediterranean: uncertainties in modelling dry deposition from cascade impactor data. Tellus Series B-chemical And Physical Meteorology, 41B(3), 362-378. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0889.1989.tb00315.x

Andrie C, Merlivat L (1988). Tritium in the western Mediterranean Sea during 1981 Phycemed cruise. Deep-sea Research Part A-oceanographic Research Papers, 35(2), 247-267. https://doi.org/10.1016/0198-0149(88)90039-8

Marchand Michel, Caprais Jean-Claude, Pignet Patricia (1988). Hydrocarbons and halogenated hydrocarbons in coastal waters of the western Mediterranean (France). Marine Environmental Research, 25(2), 131-159. https://doi.org/10.1016/0141-1136(88)90008-6

Dulac F., Buat-Ménard P., Arnold M., Ezat U., Martin D (1987). Atmospheric input of trace metals to the western Mediterranean Sea: 1. Factors controlling the variability of atmospheric concentrations. Journal Of Geophysical Research-atmospheres, 92(D7), 8437-8453. Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.1029/JD092iD07p08437 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00657/76958/

Dehairs F, Lambert Ce, Chesselet R, Risler N (1987). The biological production of marine suspended barite and the barium cycle in the Western Mediterranean Sea. Biogeochemistry, 4(2), 119-139. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02180151

Saliot A, Andrie C, Ho R, Marty Jc (1985). Hydrocarbons in the Mediterranean Sea: Their Occurrence and Fate in the Sediment and in the Water Column, as Dissolved and Associated with Small and Large Size Particulates. International Journal Of Environmental Analytical Chemistry, 22(1-2), 25-46. https://doi.org/10.1080/03067318508076407

Saliot A., Ulloa-Guevara A., Viets T.C., de Leeuw J.W., Schenck P.A., Boon J.J. (1984). The application of pyrolysis-mass spectrometry and pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry to the chemical characterization of suspended matter in the ocean. Organic Geochemistry, 6, 295-304. https://doi.org/10.1016/0146-6380(84)90051-2

Laumond F, Copin Montegut G, Courau P, Nicolas E (1984). Cadmium, copper and lead in the western Mediterranean Sea. Marine Chemistry, 15(3), 251-261. https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-4203(84)90021-5

Ho R, Marty Jc, Saliot A (1982). Hydrocarbons in the Western Mediterranean Sea, 1981. International Journal Of Environmental Analytical Chemistry, 12(2), 81-98. https://doi.org/10.1080/03067318208071573

Thesis using campaign data

Seghaier Abdallah (1984). Abondance et origine de quelques métaux (Al, Fe, Zn, Cu, Cd, Pb) dans l'aérosol marin de la Méditerranée occidentale. PhD Thesis, Université Paris 07, CNRS, ORSTOM. https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00657/76959/