FerryBox data in the North Sea from 2002 to 2005

• Published in: Earth System Science Data
• Main Authors: Petersen, Wilhelm, Reinke, Susanne, Breitbach, Gisbert, Petschatnikov, Michail, Wehde, Henning, Thomas, Henrike
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2018
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Arctic; Petersen
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1729-2018; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00004482; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00004439/essd-10-1729-2018.pdf; https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/10/1729/2018/essd-10-1729-2018.pdf

From 2002 to 2005 a FerryBox system was installed aboard two different ferries travelling between Cuxhaven (Germany) and Harwich (UK) on a daily basis. The FerryBox system is an automated flow-through monitoring system for measuring oceanographic and biogeochemical parameters installed on ships of opportunity. The variables were recorded in a time interval of 10–20 s, corresponding to a spatial resolution of about 100 m. The data set provides the parameters water temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen and chlorophyll a fluorescence. There is a longer data gap between November 2002 and August 2003 in the time series due to a change of the vessel in October 2002. The data are available at https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.883824 (Petersen et al., 2017) and as part of the COSYNA (Coastal Observing System for Northern and Arctic Seas) data portal CODM at http://codm.hzg.de/codm (last access: September 2018) or https://doi.org/10.17616/R3K02T (Breitbach, 2018).