EMSO-DYFAMED Infrastructure description

Date of Deployment: February 1988 (mooring) and 1999 (buoy)
Location: Western Ligurian Sea
Type: Mooring and buoy
Distance from land: 50 km
Maximal depth: 10 m to 2400 m

Buoy, ODAS

Coordinates: 43.36 °N and 7.86 °E
Short description:

Pyrocontrol (surface)
Meteorological station (surface)
CTD (surface)
CTD (260m)

DYFAMED Mooring

Coordinates: 43.42 °N and 7.90 °E
Short description: DYFAMED is an EMSO standalone deep sea mooring dedicated to physical forcing and carbon fluxes.

Temperature (150m)
CTD, ADCP, Sediment trap (200m)
CTDODO (350m)
Temperature (500m)
CTD (700m)
Temperature (800m)
CTD, ADCP, Sediment trap (1000m)
Temperature (1200m)
CTD (1500m)
CTDODO (2000m)
CTD (2300m)

Shipborne profiles and samplings

CTD, oxygen and fluorescence profiles
Sea water sampling: nutrients, AT-CT, Oxygen, pigments
Under water vision profiler (UVP5): particles and zooplankton profiles
Zooplankton net (0-200m): Zooplankton sampling

Data policy and access

Near real time transmitted data:
Periodically recovered data: Free access, previous year data treated by the quality assurance process, recovery on a yearly basis, download through DOI

Maintenance

Maintenance frequency: 12 months
Duration of operations: x days
Services available: Cruise preparation, lab compatibility tests, implementation on site, data transmission, archiving and dissemination

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Contacts

Primary contact: Laurent Coppola¹
Data management contact: Thierry Carval³
Maintenance contact (Technical supervisor): Emilie Diamond Riquier, Guillaume de Liège²

1: CNRS-UPMC, France
2: CNRS-IMEV, France
3: Ifremer, France