Northeast Atlantic Ocean - Loire River - DIVAnd 4D seasonal analysis of Water body phosphate 1950/2024 v2025

Nutrients

Seasonal climatology of Water body phosphate for Loire river for the period 1950-2024 and for the following seasons:

winter: January-March,
spring: April-June,
summer: July-September,
autumn: October-December. Observation data span from 1950 to 2024. Depth levels (m): [0.0, 2.0, 4.0, 6.0, 8.0, 10.0, 15.0, 20.0, 25.0, 30.0, 35.0, 40.0, 45.0, 50.0, 60.0, 70.0, 80.0, 90.0, 100.0, 110.0, 120.0, 130.0]. Data sources: observational data from SeaDataNet/EMODNet Chemistry Data Network. Description of DIVAnd analysis: the computation was done with DIVAnd (Data-Interpolating Variational Analysis in n dimensions), version 2.7.12, using GEBCO 15 sec topography for the spatial connectivity of water masses. The horizontal resolution of the produced DIVAnd maps is 0.01 degrees. Horizontal correlation length is defined seasonally (in meters): 230000 (winter), 264000 (spring), 140000 (summer), 135000 (autumn). Vertical correlation length was optimized and vertically filtered and a seasonally-averaged profile was used (DIVAnd.fitvertlen). Signal-to-noise ratio was fixed to 1 for vertical profiles and 0.1 for time series to account for the redundancy in the time series observations. A logarithmic transformation (DIVAnd.loglin) was applied to the data prior to the analysis. Background field: the vertically-filtered data mean profile is substracted from the data. Detrending of data: no, advection constraint applied: no. Units: umol/l.

Data and resources

Temporal extent	1956-07-07 – 2023-12-20
Date (creation)	2025-10-16
Status	onGoing
Update frequency	asNeeded
Metadata language	en
License	The data are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-11-04
Created	2026-11-04
API	package_show