This inventory gives the  EDMED description (methods and experimental conditions) of the generic data types collected during MTPII-MATER, and the detailed description of the related data sets by cruise or mooring. These data sets consists in :

Basic data collected in vertical profiles or times series used by all disciplines: Physics Data (data directory files: Adcp, Ctd, Current, Float, Thermi,  Xbt) Bio-chemistry Data (data directory files: Bottle, Trap)

Additional or Specific data (data irectory files: Core, Others.)

PHYSICS DATA:

	ADCP current measurements (W-Mediterranean)
	ADCP Eulerian Current Time Series (Adriatic/IonianSea)
	CTD profiles (W-Mediterranean)
	CTD Profiles (Adriatic/Ionian Sea)
	CTD Profiles (Sicily/Sardinia/Tunisia Region)
	CTD Profiles (E-Mediterranean)
	Current Meter Time Series (W-Mediterranean)
	Current Meter Time Series (Adriatic/Ionian Sea)
	Current Meters Time Series (E-Mediterranean)
	Lagrangian floats trajectories (W-Mediterranean)
	Thermistors time series (W-Mediterranean)
	XBT Low Resolution Profiles (Adriatic/IonianSea)
	XBT XCTD Lagrangian drifter profiles (W-Mediterranean)

BIO-CHEMISTRY DATA:

	Bio-chemical and Physical constituents of settling particles (E-Mediterranean)
	Biological measurements (W-Mediterranean)
	Biology in sea water (E-Mediterranean)
	Biology in sediment (E-Mediterranean)
	Biology in settling particles (E-Mediterranean)
	Dissolved biochemical elements (Adriatic/Ionian Sea)
	Dissolved chemicals in the water column (W-Mediterranean)
	Dissolved Chlorofluoro-carbons(Adriatic/Ionian Sea)
	Dissolved Chlorofluoro-carbons (E-Mediterranean)
	Dissolved Gases (Adriatic/Ionian Sea)
	Dissolved Nutrients and Chlorophyll a(Sicily/Sardinia /Tunisia Region)
	Dissolved Nutrients and Organic Carbon(Adriatic/Ionian Sea)
	Dissolved Nutrients and Organic Carbon in the water column (E-Mediterranean)
	Downward fluxes of major biogenic constituents(Adriatic/Ionian Sea)
	Metals in sediment (E-Mediterranean)
	Metals in settling particles (E-Mediterranean)
	Metals in Suspended Particulate Matter (E-Mediterranean)
	Drifting sediment traps data in the Mediterranean
	Moored sediment traps data (W-Mediterranean)
	Suspended particulate matter data (W-Mediterranean)
	Particulate Matter(Adriatic/Ionian Sea)
	Phytoplankton (Adriatic/Ionian Sea)
	Primary Production (Adriatic/Ionian Sea)
	Primary Production (E-Mediterranean)

SPECIFIC DATA :

	Acoustic reflection on marine organisms (W-Mediterranean)
	Downward fluxes of major inorganic elements(Adriatic/Ionian Sea)
	Meteorological data (W-Mediterranean)
	Radio-isotopes measurements (W-Mediterranean)
	Rare earths measurements (W-Mediterranean)
	Sediment core data (W-Mediterranean)
	Sediment core major and minor elements(Adriatic/Ionian Sea)
	Sediment cores analytical data (Adriatic/Ionian Sea)
	Surface underway data (Adriatic/Ionian Sea)
	Underwater Irradiance (PAR) in the Mediterranean
	Underwater Irradiance (PAR) (Adriatic/Ionian Sea)

The basic data of physics and bio-chemistry have been formatted at the common format MEDATLAS and full quality checks have been performed, to insure coherence and compatibility between the different data sets and a level of quality according to the international standards. These can be selected and extracted according to different criteria  using the SELMATER software and by cruise/file. They can be plotted with the available software from SELMATER and ODV.

The specific data collected in the atmosphere, sediment and biota, are in general, not reformatted at the exchange format, but archived at the original source format of the scientific file. Quality control limited to date and position availability have been made on these data, in addition to the validation made at the source laboratory. They can be extracted by cruise/ file only. No software is available on this CD-Rom for processing them.