AdriFOOS Depth/Temperature profiles dataset 2012-2020

From 2003 to 2013, the Ancona section of CNR-IRBIM (formerly part of CNR-Institute of Marine Science) runned the “Fishery Observing System” (FOS) program aimed at using Italian fishing vessels as Vessels Of Opportunity (VOOs) for the collection of scientifically useful datasets ((Lucchetti et al. 2018)-[http://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2018.09.031]). In 2012, thanks to the participation to some national and international projects (e.g. SSD-Pesca, EU-FP7 JERICO etc.), CNR started the development of a new modular “Fishery & Oceanography Observing System” (FOOS; (Patti et al. 2016)-[http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1755876X.2015.1120961]). CNR-IRBIM implemented the “AdriFOOS” observational system, by installing the FOOS on some commercial fishing boats operating in the Adriatic Sea. Since then the datacenter based in Ancona receives daily data sets of environmental parameters collected along the water column and close to the sea bottom (eg. temperature, salinity, etc.), together with GPS haul tracks, catch amounts per haul, target species sizes and weather information. Some temperature and salinity measurements acquired by the FOOS in the Adriatic Sea from January 2014 to March 2015 were published within the (NEXOS project)-[http://nexos.demo.52north.org/demo-client/#/profiles/selection]. The dataset here presented contains 14810 depth (pressure)/temperature profiles collected by 10 vessels of the AdriFOOS fleet in the period 2012-2020. All the profiles were subjected to quality control.Data are flagged according the (L20 (SEADATANET MEASURAND QUALIFIER FLAGS))-[http://seadatanet.maris2.nl/v_bodc_vocab_v2/search.asp?lib=L20]. Important Note: This submission has been initially submitted to SEA scieNtific Open data Edition (SEANOE) publication service and received the recorded DOI. The metadata elements have been further processed (refined) in EMODnet Ingestion Service in order to conform with the Data Submission Service specifications.