MAP Mooring

The Aldo Pontremoli Mooring (MAP), operated by the Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council (CNR), has been active in the Kongsfjord, located in the Svalbard archipelago, since September 11, 2020. It is situated near the mouth of Bayelva River mouth and is influenced by land terminating glaciers and the release of permafrost. Currently, the mooring line is equipped with various instruments positioned at depths ranging from 22 to 97 meters within the water column. These instruments collect a wide array of physical and biogeochemical Essential Ocean Variables, including seawater pressure, temperature, conductivity, salinity, currents, dissolved oxygen concentration, pH, particle fluxes and dissolved carbon dioxide concentration. This activity is part of the Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS), which aims to monitor the impacts of climate change, such as the rapid loss of sea ice cover, the retreat of local glaciers, and the Atlantification of Arctic seas. Time series acquisition is ongoing and will continue, supported by funding from JRA ENI-CNR. The project's goal is to analyse the environmental feeback related to the material released into the marine environment due to permafrost melting. Reactivated permafrost can have significant consequences for both climate and the environment by contributing to the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and pollutants into aquatic ecosystems.

Date (Creation): 2021-10-01T00:00:00

Citation identifier: https://metadata.iadc.cnr.it/geonetwork/srv/api/records/9bce1f64-c4e5-4d5b-b5a0-13644f8c5260

Credit: JRA ENI-CNR

Status: On going

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
National Research Council - Institute of Research of Terrestrial Ecosystem	Gianmarco Ingrosso	gianmarco.ingrosso@cnr.it	Point of contact
Italian National Research Council - Institute of Polar Sciences	Tommaso Tesi	tommaso.tesi@cnr.it	Principal investigator
Italian National Research Council - Institute of Polar Sciences	Federico Giglio	federico.giglio@cnr.it	Point of contact
Italian National Research Council - Institute of Polar Sciences	Stefano Miserocchi	stefano.miserocchi@cnr.it	Point of contact
Italian National Research Council - Institute of Polar Sciences	Leonardo Langone	leonardo.langone@cnr.it	Point of contact
Italian National Research Council - Institute of Polar Sciences	Patrizia Giordano	patrizia.giordano@cnr.it	Point of contact
Italian National Research Council - Institute of Polar Sciences	Francesco Paladini de Mendoza	francesco.paladinidemendoza@cnr.it	Originator
Italian National Research Council - Institute of Polar Sciences	Tommaso Tesi	tommaso.tesi@cnr.it	Custodian
National Research Council - Institute of Research of Terrestrial Ecosystem	Gianmarco Ingrosso	gianmarco.ingrosso@cnr.it	Processor
Italian National Research Council - Institute of Polar Sciences	Francesco Paladini de Mendoza	francesco.paladinidemendoza@cnr.it	Processor
Italian National Research Council - Institute of Polar Sciences	Francesco Paladini de Mendoza	francesco.paladinidemendoza@cnr.it	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency: Annually

Theme

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Environmental monitoring facilities
Hydrography

GCMD - Science Keywords

WATER TEMPERATURE
OXYGEN
SALINITY
PARTICLE FLUX
COASTAL PROCESSES

GCMD - Instruments

TEMPERATURE SENSORS

GCMD - Locations

SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN
ARCTIC

GCMD - Providers

ITALY

IADC Research Activities

Marine and oceanographic research

Use limitation: Creative-Commons CC BY-4.0

Code: IADC Italian Arctic Data Center

Association Type: dependency

Initiative Type: Project

Spatial representation type: Text, table

Denominator: 1

Language: English

Topic category

Oceans

Begin date: 2020-09-11

End date: 2030-12-31 Now

Unique resource identifier: WGS84

Distribution format

Name	Version
Excel	1

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://metadata.iadc.cnr.it/geonetwork/srv/api/records/9bce1f64-c4e5-4d5b-b5a0-13644f8c5260	Landing page
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://www.cnr.it/en/research-projects/project/34220/source-to-sink-effetti-della-fusione-del-permafrost-sull-oceano-artico-jrc-eni-cnr-t-tesi-dta-ad001-286	Link to JRA ENI-CNR project description
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related	https://metadata.iadc.cnr.it/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/73e04bc5-e9c5-4bf6-99e4-c19df6bb5a34	MAP Mooring CTD and SeaFet data at 20m
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related	https://metadata.iadc.cnr.it/geonetwork/srv/api/records/263078b8-81d3-4749-aeb3-0e0cbad3c02b	MAP Mooring CTD data @ 35m
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related	https://metadata.iadc.cnr.it/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/0e4fb042-a689-41fa-8baf-769067dd1d87	MAP mooring Aquadopp data at 35m
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related	https://metadata.iadc.cnr.it/geonetwork/srv/api/records/fa6b4a97-1688-4057-9914-8fc72c5134e3	MAP Mooring T data @ 40m

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Domain consistency

Conformance result

Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Pass: Yes

Statement: Time series acquisition of biogeochemical parameters along the water column along the mooring MAP

Metadata

File identifier: 9bce1f64-c4e5-4d5b-b5a0-13644f8c5260 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2026-07-09T14:24:32

Metadata standard name: ISO 19139

Metadata standard version: 1.0

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Italian National Research Council - Institute of Polar Sciences	Tommaso Tesi	tommaso.tesi@cnr.it	Principal investigator
Italian National Research Council - Institute of Polar Sciences	Francesco Paladini de Mendoza	francesco.paladinidemendoza@cnr.it	Originator