DATA SET SUMMARY (EDMED) 			Project : PROOF		
Data set name :  PROSOPE 
Cruise or Mooring : Cruise
Laboratory in charge of :	Laboratoire d’Océanographie Biologique et Ecologie du Plancton marin 
				LOBEPM BP 28 06234 Villefranche/mer FRANCE	 
DOMAINS/KEYWORDS :
•	PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY  ex : 
SUBSURFACE HYDROGRAPHY (T,S)
CURRENTS, DRIFT, DISPERSION
SURFACE HYDROGRAPHY (EG T,S)
OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF SEA WATER
	 INORGANIC CHEMISTRY 
DISSOLVED GASES 
 NUTRIENTS 
 RADIO-ISOTOPES	
 MARINE BIOLOGY
BENTHOS 
ORGANIC/BIO-CHEMISTRY 
MARINE BIOLOGY 
BULK CHEMISTY (EG PH, TCO2) 
PRODUCTIVITY, BIOMASS 
PIGMENTS (EG CHLOROPHYLL), LIGHT 
PLANKTON 
FISHES 
DEEP SEA ECOLOGY/FAUNA 
MICROBIOLOGY
	 OTHER DATA
MARINE SNOW
Particles

TIME-PERIOD : 
September-October 1999

GEOGRAPHIC-COVERAGE :
Marocan UPW & Ionian Sea & Ligurian Sea
 MEASUREMENT TYPE  : (W   P   F   S   O   B)	
W: sea water	P : water column particles	F : settling particles near the sediment 	S : sediment	O : pore water	B : biota	

OBSERVED PARAMETERS : 
(units have to be consistent with the International System of Units described in the project Data Manual)

Files *.ttd : Détection limit not validated (28/3/2000)

NAME	UNIT	FORMAT	
pressure 	Decibars	Scientific	
temperature 	Degrees 		
salinity* 	PSU		
Density* 	Kg/m3		
nephelometre 	FTU		
fluorometre	Relative unit		
particles  concentration (particles >= 90 µm)	N°/litre		
ESD*mean (MSDP) (particles >= 90 µm)	mm		
ESD* median (particles >= 90 µm)	mm		
Bio volume of particles* (particles >= 90 µm) (VQCP)	ppm		
Carbon Weight* (Dry Weight x 0.2) (Chester 1974, Alldredge 1979 & Alldredge 1988) (particles >= 90 µm)	µgC/l		
			
* calculated  values

Files *.his :

NAME	UNIT	FORMAT	
Volume of analysed sea water 	liter	Scientific	
Depth of sample 	Dbars		
# particles 2 pixels surface (90 µm ESD)			
# particles 4 pixels surface			
# particles 6 pixels surface			
……			
# particles 150 pixels surface			

Usefull equations :

Y = 0.0024 x 1.3728	x = Surface (pixels)	Y = Surface (mm²)

Lm = 0.1212 lp 		lp = Lengh (pixels)		L m= Lengh (mm)
These equations need to be validated (15/5/2000)

INSTRUMENTS (separate forms to describe the instruments) :

Underwater Video Profiler ( U.V.P. 3b)

DESCRIPTION & OBJECTIVES :

VOLUME/NUMBER OF PROFILES : 64 (Total) 52(marine snow) 12(Zooplankton)

AVAILABILITY :

Responsible Scientist : GORSKY Gabriel
Tel :    04 93 76 38 16                                                                         Fax : 04 93 76 38 34
Email : gorsky@obs-vlfr.fr
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES (METHODOLOGY) : 
Alldredge, A. L. (1979) The chemical composition of macroscopic aggregates in two neritic seas. Limonoly Oceanography, 24(5) : 855-866.

Alldredge, A. L. and M. W. Silver (1988) Characteristics, Dynamics and significance of marine snow. Progress in Oceanography, 20 : 41-82.

Chester, R. and H. Stoner (1974) The distribution of particulate organic carbon and nitrogen in some surface waters of the world ocean. Marine chemistry, 2 : 263-275.

Gorsky, G., Aldorf, C., Picheral, M., Kage, M., Garcia,Y. and J. Favole (1992) Vertical distribution of suspended aggregates determined by a new Underwater Video Profiler. Ann. Inst. oceanogr., Paris, 68 (1-2): 275-280.

Gorsky, G., Picheral, M. and L. Stemmann (2000) Use of the Underwater Video Profiler for the Study of Aggregate Dynamics in the North Mediterranean. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science.

Picheral, M., Grisoni, J-M., Stemmann, L. and G. Gorsky (1998) Underwater Video Profiler for the "in situ" study of suspended particulate matter. OCEANS 98, 28 September- 1 October, IEEE/OES conference, Nice,  p. 171-174.

Picheral, M., Stemmann. L. et G. Gorsky (1995) Système multiparamètrique pour la mesure et la quantification de la matière particulaire en suspension dans la colonne d'eau. 3e Colloque Européen Des Capteurs pour l'Environnement, Grenoble, 30-31 Mars 1995. pp. 162-165.

Stemmann, L. (1998) Analyse spatio-temporelle de la matière particulaire. Thèse Doctorale, Université Paris 6, pp 178.

Stemmann, L., Picheral, M. and G. Gorsky. (2000) Diel changes in the vertical distribution of suspended particulate matter in the NW Mediterranean Sea investigated with the Underwater Video Profiler. Deep-Sea Research. 

STATIONS LOCATION
(preference is an ASCII file on ftp or attached document)

StationsProsope.xls file.