A climatological product of inorganic nutrient distributions on the Western Mediterranean Sea (BGC-WMED) derived from cruise-based measurements spanning 1981 to 2017

doi:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.930447

A climatological product of inorganic nutrient distributions on the Western Mediterranean Sea (BGC-WMED) derived from cruise-based measurements spanning 1981 to 2017

The western Mediterranean Sea climatology (BGC-WMED) presented here is a product derived from in situ observations, that included various data sources: in total, 2253 in-situ inorganic nutrient profiles over the period 1981-2017 have been used (Medar/MEDATLAS, Fichaut et al., 2003; the CNR-WMED biogeochemical dataset, Belgacem et al., 2019,2020; SeaDataNet data product, https://www.seadatanet.org; Mediterranean Ocean Observing System for the Environment, MOOSE, http://www.moose-network.fr/). This climatology provides an annual mean gridded nutrient fields for the period 1981-2017, and sub-periods 1981-2004 and 2005-2017, on a horizontal 1/4° × 1/4° grid. The biogeochemical climatology is built on 19 depth levels and for the dissolved inorganic nutrients nitrate, phosphate and orthosilicate. To generate smooth and homogeneous interpolated fields, an advanced N-dimensional version of DIVA, DIVAnd v2.5.1 (Barth et al., 2014), has been used.

BibTex:

@dataset{Belgacem_Malek_and_Schroeder_Katrin_and_Barth_Alexander_and_Troupin_Charles_and_Pavoni_Bruno_and_Chiggiato_Jacopo_2021,
    abstract = {The western Mediterranean Sea climatology (BGC-WMED) presented here is a product derived from in situ observations, that included various data sources: in total, 2253 in-situ inorganic nutrient profiles over the period 1981-2017 have been used (Medar/MEDATLAS, Fichaut et al., 2003; the CNR-WMED biogeochemical dataset, Belgacem et al., 2019,2020; SeaDataNet data product, https://www.seadatanet.org; Mediterranean Ocean Observing System for the Environment, MOOSE, http://www.moose-network.fr/). 
This climatology provides an annual mean gridded nutrient fields for the period 1981-2017, and sub-periods 1981-2004 and 2005-2017, on a horizontal 1/4° × 1/4° grid. The biogeochemical climatology is built on 19 depth levels and for the dissolved inorganic nutrients nitrate, phosphate and orthosilicate. To generate smooth and homogeneous interpolated fields, an advanced N-dimensional version of DIVA, DIVAnd v2.5.1 (Barth et al., 2014), has been used.},
    author = {Belgacem, Malek and Schroeder, Katrin and Barth, Alexander and Troupin, Charles and Pavoni, Bruno and Chiggiato, Jacopo},
    doi = {10.1594/PANGAEA.930447},
    institution = {PANGAEA (Lithosphere)},
    keyword = {'Dissolved Inorganic Nutrient', 'Western Mediterranean Sea', 'climatology', 'marine biogeochemistry'},
    title = {A climatological product of inorganic nutrient distributions on the Western Mediterranean Sea (BGC-WMED) derived from cruise-based measurements spanning 1981 to 2017},
    url = {https://service.tib.eu/ldmservice/vdataset/png-doi-10-1594-pangaea-930447},
    year = {2021}
}