Temperature profiles obtained along the Portuguese coast, between 1981 and 1985

This dataset was produced during the Eurofleets + PORO-CLIM cruise. Project PORO-CLIM was conceived to study interplay between the first-order geological processes of continental rifting and break-up, Large Igneous Province emplacement, and global climate change, and to provide ship-based training for a cohort of international students. Cruise CE21008, the PORO-CLIM data acquisition cruise, carried out a marine geophysical survey of the POrcupine and ROckall continental passive margins, to investigate the cause of the Paleocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum, a natural CLIMate change event that is the closest deep-time analogue of anthropogenic environmental change (though the modern change is happening much faster). Project PORO-CLIM also includes a three year post-cruise data work-up phase. 65 expendable bathytherograph (XBT) probes (T-5, T-11) were deployed to constrain the seismic velocity in the water layer. Sound speed was calculated assuming a constant salinity of 34.9 psu. The €1.2M project is funded by the EU Horizon 2020 EuroFleets+ programme, the PIPCORSG industrial consortium and the Irish Marine Research Programme.

24 XBT launched during a cruise realized in October 2000

Observations were carried out with XBT, between CTD stations, to improve the information of the temperature field in the upper layer of the ocean.

Data acquired during two campaigns on July 1992 and July 1993 at Azores

This dataset is included the following parameters: water temperature, sound velocity in the water body .

XBT transect from Piraeus, Greece to Alexandria, Egypt in October 2000