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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, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, 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, ANE, Skagerrak, EurOBIS calculated BBOX
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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