Mooring A: Southwestern Ross Sea, Ross Island - Antarctica

Basic Information
Site Name
Mooring A: Southwestern Ross Sea, Ross Island
Short name
IT17-001-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 A is located in an open sea area close to Franklin Island, characterized by both clay bottom sediment and a flat morphology. The station can be considered as representative of the productivity and sedimentary conditions of the southern part of the Ross Sea, one of the areas considered to be affected by greater productivity rate.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 ...
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2025-01-07 11:01:56

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General Characteristics and Status
Site Status
Operational
Year Established
1992
Observed properties
chemical parameterwater parameterecosystem parameterdissolvednutrientdissolvedorganiccarboninwaterpercentcarbonpercentorganiccarbontotalorganiccarbonwatersalinitychlorophyllcontentofwaterconductivitywaterdepthwatertemperaturewatertransparencyinorganicnutrientcontent
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_069)This site is a verified "LTER Italia (Italy)" member.
GERI✔This site is a verified "GERI" member.
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A site (Southwestern Ross Sea, Ross Island - Antarctica)
A site (Southwestern Ross Sea, Ross Island - Antarctica)
Geographic
20 km
10 mi
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Centroid/Representative Coordinates

Latitude: -76.7 Longitude: 169.092

Size
ca. 1.00ha
Elevation (average)
-400.00msl
Elevation (min)
-800.00msl
Elevation (max)
0.00msl
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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) » Deep-sea bed (A6)
Marine habitats (A) » Deep-sea bed (A6) » Deep-sea mixed substrata (A6.2)
Marine habitats (A) » Ice-associated marine habitats (A8)
Marine habitats (A) » Ice-associated marine habitats (A8) » Sea ice (A8.1)
Marine habitats (A) » Pelagic water column (A7)
Air Temperature: Average Annual
-15.50°C
Precipitation Annual
500.00mm
Site Type
Mooring
Design of Experimentation
partly experimentation
Scale of Experimentation
plot scale
Design of Observation
partly observation
Scale of Observation
plot without link to explicit catchment
Permanent Power Supply
No
Equipment
Observation devices » Marine Platform
Data infrastructure » Data services » Other data services
Data infrastructure » Data storage » Structured file
Supporting infrastructure » Transportation » Boat
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
No
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