Summary Information for Field Activity 2002-053-FA

Area of Operations: Chienti River, Civitinova, Italy, Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Europe, North Atlantic

Dates: November 07, 2002 to November 13, 2002

Chief scientist: Chris Sherwood

Chuck Nittrouer, UW; Rocky Geyer, WHOI; Paul Hill, Dalhousie

Objectives: Deploy EuroSTRATAFORM tripods (moorings #701, 702 and 703); assist others with seabed and water column sampling; USGS thermistors deployed by Cacchione and Puig (mooring #700).

Type of Activity: Mooring work;

Information to be derived: Time series data; Grain size analysis; Suspended sediment concentrations;

Summary: Heavy fishing pressure - extra guard buoys. Leg 3 moorings deployed: 3 (#701, 702 and 703 all recovered FA 03011 SEWARD JOHNSON Feb. 11-22, 2003). Cruise Legs 1, 2 and 3 Summary: 24 Oct. - loaded ship in Ravenna. 25-28 Oct. - Leg 1a (UW, ICM, OSU, IGM), 2 tripods, 1 mooring and 6 guard buoys were deployed near Po and Pescara; seabed coring and water column profiling occurred at night. 28 Oct. - 4 Nov. - Leg 1b (UW, IGM, OSU, ICM), seabed coring and water column profiling extended from Gargano to Po. 5-7 Nov. - Leg 2 (WHOI, IGM, ICM, UW), 4 tripods and 6 guard buoys were deployed near the Po and Ravenna; water column profiling occurred at night. 7-13 Nov. - Leg 3 (USGS, IGM, Dalhousie, WHOI, ICM), 3 tripods and 4 guard buoys were deployed near the Chienti; water-column profiling extended from Gargano to Po. 14 Nov. - unloaded ship in Ravenna.

Contact: Fran Lightsom (flightsom@usgs.gov)

InfoBank: uses the identifier G-1-02-MS. Visit this site for more information.

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Publications resulting from these data

Sherwood, Christopher R., Book, Jeffrey W., Carniel, Sandro, Cavaleri, Luigi, Chiggiato, Jacopo, Das, Himangshu, Doyle, James D., Harris, Courtney K., Niedoroda, Alan W., Perkins, Henry, Poulain, Pierre-Marie, Pullen, Julie, Reed, Christopher W., Russo, Aniello, Sclavo, Mauro, Signell, Richard P., Traykovski, Peter, and Warner, John C.,2004, Sediment dynamics in the Adriatic Sea investigated with coupled models: Oceanography, v. 17, no. 4: p. 58-69. (Available as a PDF version). (Also available at http://www.tos.org/oceanography/issues/issue_archive/issue_pdfs/17_4/17.4_sherwood_et_al.pdf)

Signell, Richard P., Carniel, Sandro, Chiggiato, Jacopo, Janekovic, Ivica, Pullen, Julie, and Sherwood, Christopher R.,2008, Collaboration tools and techniques for large model datasets: Journal of Marine Systems, v. 69, no. 1-2: p. 154-161. (Also available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2007.02.013)

Carniel, Sandro, Warner, John C., Chiggiato, Jacopo, and Sclavo, Mauro,2009, Investigating the impact of surface wave breaking on modeling the trajectories of drifters in the northern Adriatic Sea during a wind-storm event: Ocean Modelling, v. 30, no. 2-3: p. 225-239. (Also available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2009.07.001)

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