Southern part of the Black Sea

Carbon concentrations in suspended particulate material; Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies; Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column; Nitrate concentration parameters in the water column; Nitrite concentration parameters in the water column; Phosphate concentration parameters in the water column; Salinity of the water column; Dissolved concentration parameters for other gases in the water column; Secchi disk depth; Density of the water column; Temperature of the water column; Particulate total and organic phosphorus concentrations in the water column; Nitrogen concentrations in suspended particulate material

CTD; discrete water samplers; titrators; spectrophotometers

HYDROBLACK 91 international cruise in the Black Sea accomplished 307 hydrographic stations with the ships from three Black Sea riparian countries. Two Ukrainian vessels (Professor Kolesnikov and Parshin), two Turkish ships (Bilim and Piri Reis), and one Bulgarian vessel (Akademik) took part, occupying stations quasi-synoptically over the entire Black Sea within a period of four weeks. Stations spacing was approximately 20 nm. IMS METU carried out 104 hydrographic stations in southern part of the Black Sea.

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