Surface temperature and salinity recorded by the thermosalinograph on-board the B/O Naváz in the Rías Baixas and its adjacent continental shelf.

Monthly sampling of physical, chemical and biological variables at N Spanish Coast

The goals of this campaign are framed within the objectives of the overall project 'Radial Profunda de Canarias', being the experimental cruise of the proposal. Thus, this cruise will help to: ¿ Determine the structure of the current when it reaches the Canary Islands, mass transport, heat and nutrients and interannual variability. ¿ Characterize the different modes of variability of heat and mass transport in easternorth atlantic subtropical gyre. ¿ Characterize the annual cycle in the physical conditions of the surface layers and mixture to where the seasonal cycle is significant, relating it to the meteorological forcings. ¿ Characterization of changes in water masses, mainly in the North Atlantic Central Water (NACW), in Antarctic Atlantic Intermediate Water (AAIW) in Mediterranean Water (MW) and bottom waters of the Canary Basin, in based on temperature, salinity, nutrients and oxygen.

The MEDITS_ES 2007 is an annual bottom trawl survey for estimation of the abundance and biomass of demersal species that are present in the Mediterranean Sea in spring, obtaining abundance indices of these species, as well as biometrical and biological information on species and communities. Complementary to these main objectives, also sampling for biological parameters estimation of 35 selected species were conducted. In addiction, in each haul, a sampling of temperature and salinity for water mass characterization was done, using a CTD.

Monthly sampling of physical, chemical and biological variables at N Spanish Coast

Monthly sampling of physical, chemical and biological variables at N Spanish Coast

Monthly sampling of physical, chemical and biological variables at N Spanish Coast

Monthly sampling of physical, chemical and biological variables at N Spanish Coast

Oceanographic survey collected in the framework of the following research project: INTERCAMBIOS EN EL ESTRECHO DE GIBRALTAR Y SU RESPUESTA A FORZAMIENTOS METEOROLOGICOS Y CLIMATICOS, INGRES 2. This Project is funded by the Education and Science Spanish Ministery.The technical objetive of the mission is to recover and to deploy a mooring system in a monitoring station (Espartel) in the Strait of Gibraltar to estimate the Mediterranean Outflow accurately (ADCP based observations) and the Atlantic Inflow into the Mediterranean Sea, with the help of indirect estimators and incomplete currentmeter data sets

The general objective of the RADMED-DOS project is the multidisciplinary monitoring of the platform and deep waters of the Mediterranean, the peninsular coast and the Balearic Islands.