Mooring B: North Central Ross Sea, Joides Basin - Antarctica

Basic Information
Site Name
Mooring B: North Central Ross Sea, Joides Basin
Short name
IT17-002-M
Country
Antarctica
Web Address
LTER-Italy website
Operating Organisation
Institute of Polar Sciences - National Research Council of Italy
Site Manager
Dr. Maurizio Azzaro
Mariangela Ravaioli
Site Description
The Mooring B is located in the North-central Ross Sea in the Joides Basin. The mooring is equiped with sediment traps, currentometers, trasmissometer, fluorimeter and CTD. The study of mooring can be consider part of the activities conduct in the framework of the research project "ABIOCLEAR - Antarctic biogeochemical cycles - climatic and paleoclimatic reconstructions. (Resp. M. Ravaioli)". Such Project is the natural prosecution of previous research activity carried out from 1987. Objectives : Study of the particle fluxes towards the marine bottom sediment, in particular with the aim to obtain quali/quantitative estimate of the biogenica component coming from the primary production. Analysis of the vertical rain rate processes ...
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2025-01-07 11:01:56

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General Characteristics and Status
Site Status
Operational
Year Established
1994
Observed properties
chemical parameterwater parameterecosystem parameterdissolvednutrientdissolvedorganiccarboninwaterpercentcarbonpercentorganiccarbontotalcarbontotalorganiccarbonwatersalinitychlorophyllcontentofwaterconductivitywaterdepthwatertemperaturewatertransparencyinorganicnutrientcontentspeciesabundance
Affiliation and Network Specific Information
Affiliation
ILTER✔This site is a verified "ILTER" member.
LTER Europe✔This site is a verified "LTER Europe" member.
LTER Italia (Italy)✔ (LTER_EU_IT_070)This site is a verified "LTER Italia (Italy)" member.
GERI✔This site is a verified "GERI" member.
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B site (North Central Ross Sea, Joides Basin - Antarctica)
B site (North Central Ross Sea, Joides Basin - Antarctica)
Geographic
30 km
20 mi
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Centroid/Representative Coordinates

Latitude: -74.0105 Longitude: 175.085

Size
ca. 1.00ha
Elevation (average)
-300.00msl
Elevation (min)
-600.00msl
Elevation (max)
0.00msl
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Site information [.json]

Centroid/representative coordinates [.shp] [.kml]
Bounding Box [.shp] [.kml]
Boundaries [.shp] [.kml]
GEO-BON Biome
Marine
Biome
Marine
Ecosystem Type
Marine
Polar
EUNIS habitat
Marine habitats (A)
Marine habitats (A) » Ice-associated marine habitats (A8)
Marine habitats (A) » Ice-associated marine habitats (A8) » Sea ice (A8.1)
Air Temperature: Average Annual
-15.50°C
Precipitation Annual
500.00mm
Site Type
Stationary land-based site
Design of Experimentation
partly experimentation
Scale of Experimentation
catchment scale
Design of Observation
partly observation
Scale of Observation
entire catchment
Permanent Power Supply
No
Equipment
Observation devices » Marine Platform
Data infrastructure » Data services » Other data services
Data infrastructure » Data storage » Unstructured file
Energy and data transmission infrastructure » Data transmission » Data Transmission Type (from site) » No data transmission from site
Energy and data transmission infrastructure » Data transmission » Data Transmission Type (within site) » No within site data transmission
Accessible All Year
Yes
All parts of Site Accessible
Yes
Access Type
boat
Permanent Operation
No
Site Visit Interval
365
Maintenance Interval
365
General Data Policy
The data provider is given and agrees to a statement of uses to which the dataset will be put
LTER Site Classification
Regular