Ranges of concentration of "quality controlled" oceanographic data (inorganic nutrients, dissolved oxygen and chlorophyll-a) from the NW Mediterranean

38th CIESM Congress, Istanbul, Turkey.-- 1 page, 1 tableQuality control procedures have been applied to oceanographic data collected at the Catalan Sea, NW Mediterranean Sea. The data sourceranges from historical data from MEDATLAS and MATER databases, inhouse data from CSIC (IIP, ICM and CEAB) from 1982 to 1997,to recent cruises of ICM, from 1999 to 2003. The effects of sample manipulation and chemometrics on the data have been studied. On thisbasis the ranges for each variable have been defined. This “quality controlled”data would be used to study ecological and biogeochemicalprocesses at the Catalan Sea (NW Mediterranean), such as seasonal dynamics of nutrients, dissolved oxygen and chlorophyll-a, as well asstoichiometr