Physical oceanography from CTD during Maria S. Merian cruise MSM20/4 in spring 2012 ...

• Main Authors: Hebbeln, Dierk, Wienberg, Claudia, Wintersteller, Paul, Freiwald, André, Becker, Marius, Beuck, Lydia, Dullo, Wolf-Christian, Eberli, Gregor P, Glogowski, Silke, Matos, Lelia, Foster, N, Reyes-Bonilla, Héctor, Taviani, Marco, Expedition MSM20/4 Scientists
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2014
• Subjects: Event label; Date/Time of event; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; Elevation of event; DEPTH, water; Depth, reference; Temperature, water; Salinity; Density, sigma-theta 0; CTD/Rosette; Yoyo-CTD; CTD; MSM20/4; Maria S. Merian; Center for Marine Environmental Sciences MARUM; Lelia; Yoyo; Lophelia pertusa
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.834741; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.834741

With an extension of > 40 km**2 the recently discovered Campeche cold-water coral province located at the northeastern rim of the Campeche Bank in the southern Gulf of Mexico belongs to the largest coherent cold-water coral areas discovered so far. The Campeche province consists of numerous 20-40 m-high elongated coral mounds that are developed in intermediate water depths of 500 to 600 m. The mounds are colonized by a vivid cold-water coral ecosystem that covers the upper flanks and summits. The rich coral community is dominated by the framework-building Scleractinia Enallopsammia profunda and Lophelia pertusa, while the associated benthic megafauna shows a rather scarce occurrence. The recent environmental setting is characterized by a high surface water production caused by a local upwelling center and a dynamic bottom-water regime comprising vigorous bottom currents, obvious temporal variability, and strong density contrasts, which all together provide optimal conditions for the growth of cold-water ... : Supplement to: Hebbeln, Dierk; Wienberg, Claudia; Wintersteller, Paul; Freiwald, André; Becker, Marius; Beuck, Lydia; Dullo, Wolf-Christian; Eberli, Gregor P; Glogowski, Silke; Matos, Lelia; Foster, N; Reyes-Bonilla, Héctor; Taviani, Marco; Expedition MSM20/4 Scientists (2014): Environmental forcing of the Campeche cold-water coral province, southern Gulf of Mexico. Biogeosciences, 11(7), 1799-1815 ...