High-resolution Observations in the Western Mediterranean Sea: The REP14-MED Experiment

Authors

Reiner Onken, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials und Coastal Research (HZG)
Heinz-Volker Fiekas, Maritime Technologie und Forschung (WTD71)
Laurent Beguery, ALSEAMAR
Ines Borrione, Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE)
Andreas Funk, Maritime Technologie und Forschung (WTD71)
Michael Hemming, University of East Anglia
Jaime Hernandez-Lasheras, Sistema de Observación Costero de las Islas Balears (SOCIB)
Karen J. Heywood, University of East Anglia (UEA)
Jan Kaiser, University of East Anglia (UEA)
Michaela Knoll, Maritime Technologie und Forschung (WTD71)
Baptiste Mourre, Sistema de Observación Costero de las Islas Balears (SOCIB)
Paolo Oddo, Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE)
Pierre-Marie Poulain, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS)
Bastien Y. Queste, University of East Anglia (UEA)
Aniello Russo, Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE)
Kiminori Shitashima, Kyushu University, International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research
Martin Siderius, Portland State UniversityFollow
Elizabeth Thorp Küsel, Portland State UniversityFollow

Published In

Ocean Science

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-2018

Subjects

Water masses -- Mediterranean Sea, Ocean circulation -- Mediterranean Sea, Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE) -- Experiments, Mediterranean Sea -- Observations -- Databases

Abstract

The observational part of the REP14-MED experiment was conducted in June 2014 in the Sardo-Balearic Basin west of Sardinia (western Mediterranean Sea). Two research vessels collected high-resolution oceanographic data by means of hydrographic casts, towed systems, and underway measurements. In addition, a vast amount of data was provided by a fleet of 11 ocean gliders, time series were available from moored instruments, and information on Lagrangian flow patterns was obtained from surface drifters and one profiling float. The spatial resolution of the observations encompasses a spectrum over 4 orders of magnitude from O(10¹ m) to O(10⁵ m), and the time series from the moored instruments cover a spectral range of 5 orders from O(10¹ s) to O(10⁶ s). The objective of this article is to provide an overview of the huge data set which has been utilised by various studies, focusing on (i) water masses and circulation, (ii) operational forecasting, (iii) data assimilation, (iv) variability of the ocean, and (v) new payloads for gliders.

Description

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Originally appeared in Ocean Science, volume 14, pages 321-335.

Published by the European Geosciences Union. May be found at https://doi.org/10.5194/os-14-321-2018

DOI

10.5194/os-14-321-2018

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/25940

Citation Details

Onken, R., Fiekas, H.-V., Beguery, L., Borrione, I., Funk, A., Hemming, M., Hernandez-Lasheras, J., Heywood, K. J., Kaiser, J., Knoll, M., Mourre, B., Oddo, P., Poulain, P.-M., Queste, B. Y., Russo, A., Shitashima, K., Siderius, M., and Thorp Küsel, E.: High-resolution observations in the western Mediterranean Sea: the REP14-MED experiment, Ocean Sci., 14, 321-335, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-14-321-2018, 2018.