KIM Mooring

The Krossfjord Italian Mooring (KIM), operated by the Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council (CNR), has been active in the Krossfjord of the Svalbard archipelago since September 9, 2020. The mooring line is equipped with various instruments placed at depths ranging from 65 to 300 meters in the water column. These instruments collect a wide range of physical and biogeochemical Essential Ocean Variables, including seawater pressure, temperature, conductivity, currents, dissolved oxygen concentration, turbidity, particle fluxes and ocean sound. This activity is part of the SIOS (Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System), designed 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 the integration of this infrastructure into the Italian Marine Data Portal, developed under the ITINERIS PNRR project. This project also funds the enhancement of the research infrastructure with new sensors to improve measurement resolution, expand the number of EOVs measured, and support the continuous collection of long-term data. These efforts will further deepen our understanding of the observed environmental changes.

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

Citation identifier: https://metadata.iadc.cnr.it/geonetwork/srv/api/records/47a45503-25a5-44e9-9192-e98d0fe25e63

Credit: NextGenerationEU;ITINERIS; Italian Integrated Environmental Research Infrastructures System;IR0000032

Status: On going

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
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	Federico Giglio	federico.giglio@cnr.it	Principal investigator
Italian National Research Council - Institute of Polar Sciences	Stefano Miserocchi	stefano.miserocchi@cnr.it	Principal investigator
Italian National Research Council - Institute of Polar Sciences	Leonardo Langone	leonardo.langone@cnr.it	Principal investigator
Italian National Research Council - Institute of Polar Sciences	Alice Cavaliere	alice.cavaliere@cnr.it	Resource provider

Maintenance and update frequency: Annually

Theme

Marine and oceanographic research

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Hydrography
Environmental monitoring facilities

GCMD - Science Keywords

SALINITY
WATER TEMPERATURE
PARTICLE FLUX
OXYGEN
COASTAL PROCESSES

GCMD - Instruments

TEMPERATURE SENSORS

GCMD - Locations

SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN
ARCTIC

GCMD - Providers

ITALY

IADC ID

IADC_ID_20
IADC_ID_797

IADC Research Activities 2

Oceanographic and marine research
Marine biology and biodiversity

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: 2020-09-01

End date: 2034-08-31 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/47a45503-25a5-44e9-9192-e98d0fe25e63	Landing page
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://www.researchinsvalbard.no/project/20000000-0000-0000-0000-000000008147/project-info	RIS Project
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--opendap	https://data.iadc.cnr.it/erddap/tabledap/5zvizd.html	KIM Mooring CTD data @ 65m
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--opendap	https://data.iadc.cnr.it/erddap/tabledap/ij6qgh.html	KIM Mooring Aquadopp data @ 115m
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--opendap	https://data.iadc.cnr.it/erddap/tabledap/r7vlke.html	KIM Mooring CTD data @ 120m
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--opendap	https://data.iadc.cnr.it/erddap/tabledap/vws21g.html	KIM Mooring T data @ 180m
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--opendap	https://data.iadc.cnr.it/erddap/tabledap/ilu2md.html	KIM Mooring ADCP data @ 200m
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--opendap	https://data.iadc.cnr.it/erddap/tabledap/fkvmu3.html	KIM Mooring T data @ 300m

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 ADCP current meter data at mooring station MDI.

Metadata

File identifier: 47a45503-25a5-44e9-9192-e98d0fe25e63 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2026-07-09T14:22:29

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	Federico Giglio	federico.giglio@cnr.it	Principal investigator
Italian National Research Council - Institute of Polar Sciences	Stefano Miserocchi	stefano.miserocchi@cnr.it	Principal investigator
Italian National Research Council - Institute of Polar Sciences	Leonardo Langone	leonardo.langone@cnr.it	Principal investigator
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	Patrizia Giordano	patrizia.giordano@cnr.it	Point of contact
Italian National Research Council - Institute of Polar Sciences	Patrizia Giordano	patrizia.giordano@cnr.it	Processor
Italian National Research Council - Institute of Polar Sciences	Francesco Paladini de Mendoza	francesco.paladinidemendoza@cnr.it	Originator