MEDATLANTE 2

Type Oceanographic cruise
Ship Jean Charcot
Ship owner Ifremer
Dates 07/08/1989 - 11/09/1989
Chief scientist(s) LAMBERT Claude

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 10.17600/89001711
Objective Studying the physical-chemical evolution of a Mediterranean water lens, or meddy, in the nearby Atlantic. These anticyclonic eddies circulating from East to West at depths around 1,000 m do not mix much with Atlantic waters and are located thanks to their high temperatures and salinity. This relatively isolated environment makes it possible to study changes in chemical characteristics depending on vertical inputs of matter and on time (distance from the source). The MEDATLANTE 2 cruise enabled the characterisation of Mediterranean waters near Madeira.

Data managed by SISMER

Bibliography

Publications

Cossa Daniel, Knoery JoelORCID, Boye Marie, Marusczak Nicolas, Thomas Bastien, Courau Philippe, Sprovieri Francesca (2020). Oceanic mercury concentrations on both sides of the Strait of Gibraltar decreased between 1989 and 2012. Anthropocene, 29, 100230 (9p.). Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2019.100230 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00593/70540/


Schmidt S (2006). Impact of the Mediterranean Outflow Water on particle dynamics in intermediate waters of the Northeast Atlantic, as revealed by Th-234 and Th-228. Marine Chemistry, 100(3-4), 289-298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2005.10.017


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


Marti S, Bayona Jm, Mejanelle L, Saliot A, Albaiges J (2001). Biogeochemical evolution of the outflow of the Mediterranean deep-lying particulate organic matter into the northeastern Atlantic. Marine Chemistry, 76(3), 211-231. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0304-4203(01)00064-0


References of Technical Reports

Cossa Daniel (2012). Le mercure en Méditerranée nord occidentale. Mercure naturel et anthropique dans l'écosystème du Golfe du Lion et de ses marges : niveaux, apports et tendances dans l'atmosphère, les eaux, les sédiments et les organismes vivants. RST/ODE/LER-PAC/12-03. https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00115/22674/