MEDIPROD IV

Name: MEDIPROD IV
Start: 1981-10-15
End: 1981-11-18
Location: Mediterranean Sea, Western Basin

Type	Oceanographic cruise
Set	This cruise is part of the set MEDIPROD
Ship	Jean Charcot
Ship owner	Ifremer
Dates	15/10/1981 - 18/11/1981
Chief scientist(s)	MINAS Hans J.
	INSTITUT MÉDITERRANÉEN D'OCÉANOLOGIE - UMR 7294 UMR IRD 235 - MARSEILLE 163 avenue de Luminy Bâtiment Méditerranée 13288 Marseille Cedex 9 +33(0)4 86 09 05 00 https://www.mio.osupytheas.fr/fr/
DOI	10.17600/81006511
Objective	To characterize the typical waters of the western Mediterranean basin from a chemical point of view (Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Silicon). To obtain new elements for the establishment of the balance of chemical exchanges with the Atlantic Ocean. In terms of the expected results, this cruise is a continuation of the MEDIPROD I to III cruises.

Sea/Ocean

Mediterranean Sea, Western Basin

(MEDITERRANEE OUEST, DETROIT DE GIBRALTAR)

Ports

Port of departure : Brest (France)

Port of return : Toulon (France)

Scientific Authority

COM / LAB. D'OCEANOG. PHYS. & BIOGEOCHIMIQ. (LOPB) - LUMINY

UMR 6535

Campus de Luminy

13288 MARSEILLE CEDEX 9

+33(0)4 91 82 91 15

queguiner@com.univ-mrs.fr

Participating bodie(s)

STATION MARINE D'ENDOUME ET CENTRE D'OCEANOGRAPHIE MARSEILLE

Discipline(s)

PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Code	Label	Quantity	PI
B02	Phytoplankton pigments (eg chloroph	63 stations	MINAS Hans J.
B06	Dissolved organic matter (inc DOC)	-	COSTE Bernard
B09	Zooplankton	-	MINAS Hans J.
B71	Particulate organic matter (inc POC	-	COSTE Bernard
D05	Surface drifters/drifting buoys	3 deployments	GASCARD Jean Claude
D06	Neutrally buoyant floats Flotteurs de Swallow	5	GASCARD Jean Claude
H09	Water bottle stations	63 stations	GASCARD Jean Claude
H10	CTD stations	-	GASCARD Jean Claude
H21	Oxygen	63 stations	MINAS Hans J.
H22	Phosphate	63 stations	COSTE Bernard
H23	Total - P	-	COSTE Bernard
H24	Nitrate	63 stations	COSTE Bernard
H26	Silicate	63 stations	COSTE Bernard
H27	Alkalinity	-	POISSON Alain
H28	pH	-	POISSON Alain

Summary of measurements

-80 hydrology stations: CTD: T, S, O2 and NIO bottle sampling: nutrients.
-11 long-term stations.
-Niskin bottle sampling: dissolved and particulate organic matter, alkalinity, CO2, ETS activity, chlorophyll a, ATP.

Location map

Positionning system

Geodetic system : WORLD GEODETIC SYSTEM 1972 = WGS72

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

References of Articles published in other Periodicals or Scientific Works acclaimed in the Field

Dallot S, Goy J, Carre C (1988). Peuplements de carnivores planctoniques gelatineux et structures productives en Mediterranee occidentale. Oceanologica Acta, Special issue Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00267/37813/

Bethoux J P, Prieur L, Bong J H (1988). Le courant Ligure au large de Nice. Oceanologica Acta, Special issue Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00267/37816/

Minas Hj, Minas M, Coste B, Gostan J, Nival P, Bonin M P (1988). Production de base et de recyclage; une revue de la problematique en Mediterranee nord-occidentale. Oceanologica Acta, Special issue Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00267/37833/

Coste B, Le Corre P, Minas Hj, Morin P (1988). Les elements nutritifs dans le bassin occidental de la Mediterranee. Bilan des echanges avec l'ocean Atlantique a Gibraltar. Oceanologica Acta, Special issue Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00267/37832/

Copin-Montegut C (1988). Elements majeurs des particules en suspension de la Mediterranee occidentale. Oceanologica Acta, Special issue Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00267/37817/

References of Technical Reports

Groupe MEDIPROD (1984). Propriétés hydrologiques et chimiques des eaux du bassin occidental de la Méditerranée. Campagne MEDIPROD IV - 15 octobre - 17 novembre 1981. Publications du Centre National pour l'Exploitation des Océans (CNEXO), Série Résultats des campagnes à la mer, n° 26 - 1984. ISSN 0339-2902. https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00717/82871/