Publication Date:
2024-01-10
Description:
A 2-year dataset of a stand-alone mooring, deployed in November 2020 down the Levante Canyon in the eastern Ligurian Sea, is presented. The Levante Canyon Mooring (LCM) is a deep submarine multidisciplinary observatory positioned at 608 m depth in a key ecosystem area. The Levante Canyon hosts a valuable and vulnerable ecosystem of deep-living cold-water corals (CWCs), studied and monitored since 2013 through integrated mapping of the seabed and water column. The 2-year dataset, acquired on the mooring and presented here (data from November 2020 to October 2022), includes measurements conducted with both current meters and conductivity–temperature–depth (CTD) probes and provides information about the hydrodynamics and thermohaline properties across almost the entire water column. The observatory is still ongoing, and the dataset is regularly updated. All the described data are publicly available from https://doi.org/10.17882/92236 (Borghini et al., 2022). They must therefore be preserved and are of considerable scientific interest.
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This research has been supported by the Distretto Ligure delle Tecnologie Marine (DLTM) through funding obtained from Regione Liguria (PAR-FSC 2007–2013 funds) and by institutional funds from Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Istituto di Scienze Marine (CNR-ISMAR), Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l’energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile (ENEA), Istituto Idrografico della Marina (IIM) and Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV).
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Published
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1933–1946
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OSA4: Ambiente marino, fascia costiera ed Oceanografia operativa
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JCR Journal
Keywords:
submarine canyon
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oceanography
;
mooring
;
dataset
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03. Hydrosphere
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05.02. Data dissemination
Repository Name:
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
Type:
article
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