GEOTRACES in the Levantine Basin, Eastern Mediterranean

Angelos Hannides & Cecelia Hannides with thanks to Dan Hayes & George Zodiates, Oceanography Center, University of Cyprus (OC-UCY)

www.oceanography.ucy.ac.cy/

• OC-UCY is interested in participating in and facilitating GEOTRACES-related activities in the Levantine Basin

• A Mediterranean GEOTRACES transect? Discussion tomorrow

• The use of the physical oceanographic activities of OC-UCY as a foundation on which to build the biogeochemical operational oceanography component of OC-UCY

• A Mediterranean GEOTRACES transect:• Tracing an Atlantic ocean water mass back to the source;• Providing the impetus for regional and local process studies to generate GEOTRACES-compatible data.

http://www.oceanography.ucy.ac.cy/cycofoshttp://www.oceanography.ucy.ac.cy/bythos

Research directions of the Oceanography Center: Physical operational oceanography:

Cyprus Coastal Ocean Forecasting and Observing System (CYCOFOS) Forecasting

Remote sensing

Cyprus Basin Oceanography (CYBO) Cruises and moorings

Autonomous gliders (from 2008)

Data management and information:• Historical data/metadata bases

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Longitude (deg E)

31.0

31.5

32.0

32.5

33.0

33.5

34.0

34.5

35.0

35.5

36.0

36.5

37.0

Latitude (deg N)

MedGOOS-3 Buoy

EratosthenesSeamount

Robinson et al. 2001SeaWiFS, NASA, 18 April, 2001