The objective of this tender is to examine the current data collection, observation and data assembly programmes in the Meditterranean Sea, identify gaps and to evaluate how they can be optimised.

VOS/SOOP tracks are usually repeated several times a year and inform about the marine sinks and sources of atmospheric carbon dioxide on a global bases and their variability. Data from this network has been made available to the scientific community and interested public via the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Centre (CDIAC) Oceans at the Department of Energy, USA, since the early 1990’s where PIs submitted and shared their data. In 2017, CDIAC Ocean will be named Ocean Carbon Data System (OCADS) and join NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). In 2007, the marine biogeochemistry community coordinated by the International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project (IOCCP), launched the Surface Ocean Carbon Dioxide ATlas (SOCAT) in order to uniformly quality control and format the data with detailed documentation. Underway carbon dioxide data from the VOS network are integrated in SOCAT.

Specifications of the desirable and recommended product attributes for generating spatial layers of sea level trend for the last 10 years for the Mediterranean basin and for each NUTS3 region along the coast.

Description of de desirable and recomended attributes for generating time-series of sea surface annual average temperature for the last 10, 50 and 100 yrs for the Mediterranean basin and for each NUTS region along the coast.

Description of the attributes for the time-series of sea surface annual average temperature for the last 10, 50 and 100 yrs for the Mediterranean basin and for each NUTS region along the coast.

A total number of 277 water samples were collected during distinct oceanographic cruises or at fixed stations across coastal systems of France and Senegal. The seawater samples were progressively filtered onto size-fractionated filters (representing micro, nano and pico-plankton). Metabarcoding of the V4 domain of the Eukaryotic 18S rDNA region was carried out to characterize the genetic diversity of the sampled communities. Genomic DNA was extracted following the DNA extraction kit Nucleospin Plant II (Macherey-Nagel) and the V4 markers were amplified with a taq polymerase (Phusion High-Fidelity PCR Master Mix with GC Buffer). Sequencing was performed by the Genotoul sequencing platform (get.genotoul.fr) with the Illumina MISeq method (2x250 bp). The present dataset gathers the different results issued from sequencing. This dataset was submitted to sequence cleaning, filtering, taxonomic assignment and OTU clustering, which resulted in a final dataset also presented.

Specification of the desirable and recommended product attributes for generating time series of average annual sea-level rise for the last 50 and 100 yrs.

The objective of this tender is to examine the current data collection, observation and data assembly programmes in the Meditterranean Sea, identify gaps and to evaluate how they can be optimised.

Data from FerryBoxes on ships of opportunity going on permanent routes are stored inside this database (ferrydata.hzg.de). Parameters are temperature, salinity, chlorophyll-a fluorescence, oxygen and different others. The data model is transect oriented. A data portal to access and visualise the data is also provided.

Description of spatial layers attributes of sea-level trend (units: mm/year) from tide gauges over periods of 50 years (1963-2012) and 100 years (1913-2012), to characterize and assess average annual sea-level rise at the coast.