Title

Morpho-Bathymetry of the Mediterranean Sea

Date (Creation)

2015-07-22

Abstract

The systematic swath bathymetric mapping of the Mediterranean Sea started in the mid-nineties. This mapping has considerably modified our understanding of the morphology of the Mediterreanean Sea and of the various active geological processes (sedimentary, tectonic, volcanic, bio-geochemical processes) which participate to the seafloor morphology.

Credit

MISTRALS

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Université de Brest	Campistron Laeticia	laetitia.campistron@univ-brest.fr	Author

Centre de données ODATIS

• CDS-OMP

Thèmatiques ODATIS

• Added-value products

Type de jeux de donnée ODATIS

• Aggregate data

Keywords

ODATIS aggregation parameters and Essential Variable names

• Bathymetry

Use limitation

Data users must comply with the MISTRALS Data Policy, including contact to the principal investigator to agree on either co-authorship or aknowledgement

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Use constraints

License

Other legal constraints

The following reference map should be cited in any publication: Brosolo,L., Mascle,J., Loubrieu,B., 2012, Morphobathymetric Map of the Mediterranean Sea, publication CCGM/CGMW, UNESCO, Paris. © CCGM-CGMW 2012 - ISBN 978-2-917310-12-0. The compilation has been funded by the MISTRALS program and resulted from various previous DTM (Ifremer, GEBCO, SRTM 33'), from swath bathymetric data sets recorded by several laboratories and Institutes (IFREMER, SHOM, CNRS-INSU-GEOAZUR, OGS-Trieste, ISMAR-Bologna, CMCR-Hamburg...) and by Industry (BP-Egypt, ENI, OMV), and from the EMODNET and ASSEMBLAGE European projects outputs

Spatial representation type

Grid

Denominator

50000

Language

Français

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Oceans

Distribution format

Name	Version
NetCDF	3
XYZ Ascii

Transfer size (in MB)

800

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--metadata-URL	http://data.datacite.org/10.6096/MISTRALS.1341
WWW:LINK	http://mistrals.sedoo.fr/MISTRALS/?editDatsId=1341	Accès authentifié au jeu de données
OGC:WMS	https://api.sedoo.fr/sedoo-wms/wms/bathy.nc?service=WMS&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities	Band1

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

Brosolo,L., Mascle,J., Loubrieu,B., 2012, Morphobathymetric Map of the Mediterranean Sea, publication CCGM/CGMW, UNESCO, Paris. © CCGM-CGMW 2012 - ISBN 978-2-917310-12-0

This map results from the compilation of the following DTMs and complementary data:

- The basic DTM is the one used for the Morpho-bathymetric compilation of the Mediterranean Sea published by Loubrieu,B., Mascle,J. and Medimap group, (2007), « Morpho-bathymetry of the Mediterranean Sea », CIESM/Ifremer special publication.

This compilation resulted from various DTMs from swath bathymetric data sets recorded between 1995-2007 by several European oceanographic laboratories and Institutes (see: http://www.ciesm.org/).

- This DTM has been completed by unpublished swath bathymetry data from IFREMER, SHOM, GEOAZUR, OGS-Trieste, ISMAR-Bologna, CMCR- Hamburg and, off Egypt, by a few 3D seismic data first arrivals from Industry (BP-Egypt, ENI, OMV).

A few complementary data have been downloaded from the EMODNET European project portal ((www.emodnet-hydrography.eu/)

- For the Gulf of Cadiz the compilation has benefited from a DTM at 500 m from various swath data published by Zitellini, N., Gracia, E., et a., (2009), « Bathymetry of the Gulf of Cadiz, North-East Atlantic: the Swim Multibeam compilation », Earth and Planetary Sciences Letters, 280: 15-50.doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.12.005.

- For the Black Sea, the swath bathymetric data were obtained during the European project ASSEMBLAGE.

- For the Bay of Biscay a DTM at 1000m, from Sibuet, J.C., Loubrieu, B., & al. (2004) « Carte bathymétrique de l’Atlantique nord-est et du Golfe de Gascogne: implications cinématiques », Bull. Soc. Géol. Fr., has been used.

- For areas not yet mapped in details (or whose data are not yet available) in the Mediterranean Sea, and in the Black Sea a DTM, at 1500m, from the GEBCO atlas has been used to complete the map (General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans; http://www.gebco.net/data_and_products/gebco_digital_atlas/)

- On land the topography is extracted from SRTM 33’’ (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, NASA); DTM at 90m.

Metadata

File identifier

fcb72f2c-0033-4706-9ed7-ad36ffaf1024

Metadata language

English

Other language

Language	Character encoding
French	UTF8

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2024-10-28T14:57:25.193739Z

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139 - SEXTANT

Metadata standard version

1.0