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PANGAEA - Data from the Skagerrak experiment (SKAGEX)
Citation
Dybern, B I; Dahlin, Hans; Dubra, Juozas; Fennel, Wolfgang; Fogelqvist, Elisabet; Foyn, Lars; Gaul, Horst; Hansen, Hans Peter; Hernroth, Lars; Johannessen, Ola M; Krol, Tadeusz; Lange, Wolfgang; Lindahl, O; Slaczka, W; Talpsepp, L; Vitautas, A; SKAGEX Members (2007): Physical, chemical and biological oceanography from the Skagerrak Experiment (SKAGEX). International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Copenhagen. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/2327
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Description
A joint international investigation in the Skagerrak area, the Skagerrak Experiment (SKAGEX) was carried out from spring 1990 to spring 1991. Four field phases (SKAGEX I-IV) were carried out, and 17 research ships from 7 countries participated. more

A joint international investigation in the Skagerrak area, the Skagerrak Experiment (SKAGEX) was carried out from spring 1990 to spring 1991. Four field phases (SKAGEX I-IV) were carried out, and 17 research ships from 7 countries participated with the following objectives:
  • To identify and quantify the various water masses entering and leaving the Skagerrak Area, and their variations over time;
  • To investigate the mechanisms that drive the circulation in the area, and its links with biological processes;
  • To investigate the pathways of contaminants through the Skagerrak.
The leader of the Project was B. Dybern; the ICES Data Centre acted as the project data centre, collating most of the oceanographic data from 2896 bottle/CTD profiles. This data set is a copy from the original data at ICES, published in 2007 via the information system Pangaea.
Lineage
Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output
Scope
Themes:
Biology > Plankton > Phytoplankton, Biology > Plankton > Zooplankton
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, ANE, Skagerrak, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, lowered unmanned submersible, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Phytoplankton, Sea regions, ship, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, Zooplankton
Geographical coverage
ANE, Skagerrak [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 6,9833; MinLat: 56,7 - MaxLong: 11,525; MaxLat: 59,0083 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
1991 - 1992
Contributors
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), more, data manager, data owner, data creator
Related datasets
Published in:
PANGAEA: Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
(Partly) included in:
Presence/Absence maps of phytoplankton in the Greater Baltic Sea
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Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field experiment
Release date: 2011-01-05
Metadatarecord created: 2010-02-11
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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