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Ifremer-Sismer bottles : a new provision of vertical profiles from 55 oceanographic cruises

On August 3, 2022, Coriolis released a set of 2,986 BGC bottles from the Sismer database.
A bottle is a vertical profile of bio-geo-chemical (BGC) data from a CTD rosette from an oceanographic vessel.

  • These observations were made between 1997 and 2021 (see histogram 1) in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific (see maps 1, 2 and 3).
  • They were observed from 9 oceanographic vessels (see table 1).
  • They contain 111 distinct parameters, with a majority of chlorophyll, oxygen, silicate, nitrate, phosphate, ammonium, suspended matter, pigments, carbon and isotopes (see table 2).
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Map 1: 2896 BGC bottles from global ocean

 

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Map 2 : focus on Atlantic and Mediterranean

 

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Map 3 : focus on Pacific ocean

 

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Table 1: histogram of bottles

 

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Table 2: list of parameters