MTPII-MATER/ELISA4 JUN98

Name: MTPII-MATER/ELISA4 JUN98
Start: 1998-06-22
End: 1998-07-08
Location: Mediterranean Sea, Western Basin

Type	Oceanographic cruise
Set	This cruise is part of the set MTPII-MATER
Ship	Le Suroît
Ship owner	Ifremer
Dates	22/06/1998 - 08/07/1998
Chief scientist(s)	TAUPIER-LETAGE Isabelle
Project manager	MONACO André
DOI	10.17600/98020050
Objective	-Recovering 9 ELISA moored arrays. Studying mesoscale phenomena in the Algerian Basin; consequences on general water mass circulation and biological consequences.

Sea/Ocean

Mediterranean Sea, Western Basin

(Partie est du Bassin Algerien)

Ports

Port of departure : Toulon (France)

Port of return : Toulon (France)

Project

MEDITERRANEAN TARGETED PROJECT MTP II-MATER

Scientific Authority

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

CNRS-Université Méditerranée

Antenne de Toulon, BP 330

83507 LA SEYNE SUR MER

Participating bodie(s)

LOB,COM, ICM/Barcelona, DGA

Discipline(s)

PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Code	Label	Quantity	PI
B02	Phytoplankton pigments (eg chloroph Prélèvements Chl.a, 4 séries temporelles CTD/Fluorimètres (1an).	47 stations	TAUPIER-LETAGE Isabelle
D01	Current meters 1 an - rattaches a ELISA 1 et ELISA 2	41 deployments	MILLOT Claude
D71	Current profiler (eg ADCP) ADCP de coque : toute la campagne 1 ADCP mouillé (1an).	-	MILLOT Claude
D90	Other physical oceanographic meas. 4sources acoustiques pour positionnement flotteurs de subsurface 1 an.	-	TAUPIER-LETAGE Isabelle
H09	Water bottle stations NISKIN BOTTLES	47 stations	TAUPIER-LETAGE Isabelle
H10	CTD stations 3 à300m, 70 à1000m, 17 à 2000m.	90 stations	TAUPIER-LETAGE Isabelle
H13	Bathythermograph XBT T7	65 profiles	MILLOT Claude
H16	Transparency (eg transmissometer)	91 stations	TAUPIER-LETAGE Isabelle
H17	Optics (eg underwater light levels)	91 stations	TAUPIER-LETAGE Isabelle
H21	Oxygen	91 stations	TAUPIER-LETAGE Isabelle
H22	Phosphate	47 stations	RAIMBAULT Patrick
H24	Nitrate	47 stations	RAIMBAULT Patrick
H25	Nitrite	47 stations	RAIMBAULT Patrick
H72	Thermistor chain (2 à 200m - 1 à 400m). Rattachees à ELISA 1 et ELISA 2,	3 recoveries	MILLOT Claude

Summary of measurements

-Recovery of 9 moored arrays (52,800m).
-Study of a mesoscale eddy generated by the Algerian current in the Algerian basin.
-90 CTD stations (3 at 300m, 70 at 100m, 17 at 2000m), rosette samples (Chl.a, SN).
-79 XBT shots (65 XBT correct shots).

Location map

Positionning system

Geodetic system : VALEUR INDEFINIE

Published data

Taupier-Letage Isabelle (2020). ELISA (1997-1998) mesoscale survey in the Algerian sub-basin (Western Mediterranean): hydrological data set of the cruise ELISA-4 (summer 1998). https://doi.org/10.17882/72546

Data managed by SISMER

Bibliography

Publications

Van Haren Hans, Millot Claude, Taupier-Letage Isabelle (2006). Fast deep sinking in Mediterranean eddies. Geophysical Research Letters, 33(L04606), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1029/2005GL025367

Bricaud A, Bosc E, Antoine D (2002). Algal biomass and sea surface temperature in the Mediterranean Basin - Intercomparison of data from various satellite sensors, and implications for primary production estimates. Remote Sensing Of Environment, 81(2-3), 163-178. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0034-4257(01)00335-2