PROTEVS-MED field experiments: Very High Resolution Hydrographic Surveys in the Western Mediterranean Sea

From 2015 to 2018 five field experiments (9 legs) have been performed in the Western Mediterranean Basin during winter or early spring. Thanks to the intensive use of a towed vehicle undulating in the upper oceanic layer between 0 and 400 meter depth (i.e. a Seasoar), a large amount of very high resolution hydrographic transects have been performed, to measure the mesoscale dynamics (slope current and its instabilities, anticyclonic eddies, sub-mesoscale coherent vortices, frontal dynamics convection events, strait outflows) and sub-mesoscale processes like stirring, mixed layer or symmetric instabilities. When available, the data were completed with velocities recorded by Vessel Mounted Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (VMADCP) and by surface salinity and temperature recorded by ThermosalinoGraph (TSG). Some CTD casts have also been performed giving the background hydrography of the deep layers. In 2017, a Moving Vessel Profiler (MVP) has been deployed to manage even higher horizontal resolution. This data set is an unprecedented opportunity to investigate the very fine scale processes as the Mediterranean Sea is known for its intense and contrasted dynamics. It should be useful for modellers (who reduce the grid size below a few hundred meters) and expect to properly catch finer scale dynamics. Likewise, theoretical work could also be illustrated by in situ evidence embedded in this data set.

Date (Publication): 2018

Date (Revision): 2025-02-18

Other citation details: Dumas Franck, Garreau Pierre, Louazel Stephanie, Correard Stephanie, Fercoq Solenn, Le Menn Marc, Serpette Alain, Garnier Valerie, Stegner Alexandre, Le Vu Briac, Doglioli Andrea, Gregori Gerald (2018). PROTEVS-MED field experiments: Very High Resolution Hydrographic Surveys in the Western Mediterranean Sea. SEANOE. https://doi.org/10.17882/62352

Credit: The authors acknowledge that the French Government Defense procurement and technology agency (Délégation Générale de l’Armement) funded extensively through Protevs and Protevs II “programme d’étude amont” all the campains reported here..  They thank the technical team at the French Naval Hydrologic and Oceanographic Service (SHOM), the crews of the French Navy ship Beautemps-Beaupré, of the RV Pourquoi Pas ? and the RV L’Atalante for their contribution to the field experiments.

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SHOM, Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine, 13 rue de Chatellier, CS592803, 29228 Brest CEDEX 2, France - DUMAS Franck

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IFREMER, Univ. Brest, CNRS UMR 6523, IRD, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), IUEM, 29280, Plouzané, France - GARREAU Pierre

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SHOM, Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine, 13 rue de Chatellier, CS592803, 29228 Brest CEDEX 2, France - LOUAZEL Stephanie

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SHOM, Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine, 13 rue de Chatellier, CS592803, 29228 Brest CEDEX 2, France - CORREARD Stephanie

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SHOM, Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine, 13 rue de Chatellier, CS592803, 29228 Brest CEDEX 2, France - FERCOQ Solenn

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SHOM, Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine, 13 rue de Chatellier, CS592803, 29228 Brest CEDEX 2, France - LE MENN Marc

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SHOM, Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine, 13 rue de Chatellier, CS592803, 29228 Brest CEDEX 2, France - SERPETTE Alain

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IFREMER, Univ. Brest, CNRS UMR 6523, IRD, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), IUEM, 29280, Plouzané, France - GARNIER Valerie

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Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD), CNRS UMR 8539, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France - STEGNER Alexandre

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Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD), CNRS UMR 8539, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France - LE VU Briac

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Aix Marseille Univ., Université de Toulon, CNRS, IRD, MIO UM 110, 13288 Marseille, France - DOGLIOLI Andrea

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Aix Marseille Univ., Université de Toulon, CNRS, IRD, MIO UM 110, 13288 Marseille, France - GREGORI Gerald

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SEANOE

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Western Mediterranean Sea
High Resolution Transects
(Sub)Mesoscales Observations
Eddies
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Physical oceanography

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Date (Publication): 2023

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Copernicus GmbH

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Tzortzis Roxane

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Doglioli Andrea M.

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Barrillon Stéphanie

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Petrenko Anne A.

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Izard Lloyd

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Zhao Yuan

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D'Ovidio Francesco

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Dumas Franck

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Gregori Gérald

Unique resource identifier: 10.5194/bg-20-3491-2023

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Date (Publication): 2021

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Copernicus GmbH

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Tzortzis Roxane

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Doglioli Andrea M

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Barrillon Stéphanie

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Petrenko Anne A

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D'Ovidio Francesco

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Izard Lloyd

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Thyssen Melilotus

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Pascual Ananda

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Barcelo-Llull Barbara

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Cyr Frédéric

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Tedetti Marc

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Bhairy Nagib

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Garreau Pierre

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Dumas Franck

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Gregori Gérald

Unique resource identifier: 10.5194/bg-18-6455-2021

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Date (Publication): 2020

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Copernicus GmbH

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Garreau Pierre

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Dumas Franck

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Louazel Stephanie

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Correard Stéphanie

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Fercocq Solenn

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Le Menn Marc

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Serpette Alain

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Garnier Valerie

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Stegner Alexandre

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Le Vu Briac

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Doglioli Andrea

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Gregori Gerald

Unique resource identifier: 10.5194/essd-12-441-2020

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Date (Publication): 2020

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Copernicus GmbH

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Ribotti Alberto

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Sorgente Roberto

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Borghini Mireno

Unique resource identifier: 10.5194/essd-12-1287-2020

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Date (Publication): 2018

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Amer Geophysical Union

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GARREAU PIERRE

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DUMAS FRANCK

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LOUAZEL STEPHANIE

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STEGNER A.

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LE VU B.

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Metadata language: English

Topic category

Oceans

Begin date: 2015

End date: 2018

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Statement: CTD and LADCP casts :

- presure (Sea-bird SBE-9 ; 0 at surface)

- sea water temperature (Sea-bird SBE-9; SBE 3 temperature sensor)

- sea water electrical conductivity (Sea-bird SBE-9; SBE 4 conductivity sensor)

- practical salinity units (derived computation)

- Currents velocities : RDI 150 kHz current profiler

SEASOAR transects :

- sea water temperature (Sea-bird SBE-9; SBE 3 temperature sensor)

- sea water electrical conductivity (Sea-bird SBE-9; SBE 4 conductivity sensor)

- oxygen sensor SBE-43 ; chlorophyll a WetStar WET Labs fluorometer ; optical properties sensor (WET Labs C-Star)

- practical salinity units (derived computation)

MVP200 transect : Moving Vessel Profiler equiped

- Temperature, Salinity : AML CTD

Ship Equipement :

- vmadcp : RDI Teledyne150 kHz / 38kHz.

- tsg : Seabird SBE-21

File identifier: seanoe:62352 XML

Metadata language: English

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Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2025-02-18

Metadata standard name: ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version: 1.0

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IFREMER, Univ. Brest, CNRS UMR 6523, IRD, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), IUEM, 29280, Plouzané, France - GARREAU Pierre

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