Dataset of Depth/Temperature profiles obtained in the period 2012–2020 using commercial fishing vessels of the AdriFOOS fleet in the Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean Sea)

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Abstract. This document describes the dataset of depth (pressure)/temperature profiles collected by means of the AdriFOOS infrastructure in the period 2012–2020 and briefly illustrates the structure of this facility, the oceanographic dataset validation procedures, some of the results achieved, and also lists some possible operational applications. In fact, in the last decade, CNR IRBIM's AdriFOOS has collected an enormous amount of georeferenced oceanographic and catch data through the use of commercial fishing vessels operating in the Adriatic Sea. This information is of the utmost importance to provide data to feed oceanographic models and advance knowledge on climate change, as well as to improve the ecosystem approach to fisheries management.

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“…Data are then transmitted from the deck box to a database via cellular data, Wi-Fi, or satellite internet depending on hub configuration, fishing region, and vessel systems. Once received into a database, data are quality controlled, standardized, and accessed by users including operational centers, such as Copernicus Marine Service (Le Traon et al, 2019;Penna et al, 2023). Vessels can also be instrumented with, or utilize, existing seasurface or surface-meteorological instrumentation that is used in other ship of opportunity programs such as the Voluntary Observing Ship (VOS) scheme (Smith et al, 2019;Piecho-Santos et al, 2021).…”

“…Van Vranken et al 10.3389/fmars.2023.1176814 server and sending back useful information to vessels (Martinelli et al, 2016;Patti al., 2016). AdriFOOS is an infrastructure composed of several FOOS systems installed on commercial fishing vessels operating in the Adriatic Sea and a data center located in the Ancona office of the Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnology of the National Research Council of Italy (Penna et al, 2023). The server receives data collected during the fishing phases along the water column and near the bottom (e.g.…”

“…), GPS track, catches per haul, and meteorological information. Data are then archived in a multifunctional database that allows validation, analysis processes and provision of data to European interoperable platforms (Penna et al, 2020;Penna et al, 2023). Functionality demonstrations were carried out during various European projects (Gaughan et al, 2015;Sparnocchia et al, 2017) and led to the definition of internationally recognized best practices for instrumentation pre-deployment routines (Möller et al, 2019).…”

“…Delayed mode QC are not currently implemented, but this is under development in collaboration with IMOS Australia. Penna et al (2023) describe how the pressure(depth)/ temperature profiles dataset provided by the AdriFOOS infrastructure were subject to QA and QC according to European SeaDataNet standards (Martinelli et al, 2016;Möller et al, 2019)…”