Distribution and concentration of nutrients, carbon compounds and methane in water samples in the southern German Bight (North Sea) in September 2024 during the MOSES Sternfahrt 12

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The 12th Sternfahrt of the ElbeXtreme and MOSES projects took place in 2024 from September 02 to 13, within the area of the German Bight (North Sea). Its objective was to get a more systematic grid of sampling data by spatially integrated onboard sensors. Therefore, the MOSES-laboratory container was installed again. Water samples were taken from the surface with a rosette or via Niskin bottles. The first part of the cruise was conducted by the research vessel (RV) Ludwig Prandtl, starting on the 2nd of September on Heligoland. From there, the crew navigated towards Cuxhaven covering some stations from previous MOSES cruises. For the next days, the ship followed a rectangular track, shifting northward each day, heading towards Heligoland again. Due to strong winds, the sampling stations were reduced to three on the last day. On Heligoland the RV Mya II took over the laboratory container and other sampling equipment for the second part of the cruise. Persistent strong winds delayed the start of the cruise until September 11. Since most of the planned stations were already covered from the RV Ludwig Prandtl, the crew decided to expand the sampling area using a more systematic zig-zag line. With the return of Mya II in the afternoon of the 13th September 2024, the campaign was successfully finished.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.993203
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.57738/BZPM_0804_2025
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.993203
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Creator Bussmann, Ingeborg ORCID logo; Flöser, Götz ORCID logo; Jayachandran, Saranya
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2026
Funding Reference Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002347 Crossref Funder ID 03F0954B https://foerderportal.bund.de/foekat/jsp/SucheAction.do?actionMode=view&fkz=03F0954B DAM mareXtreme - ElbeXtreme, AWI
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 505 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (7.896W, 53.893S, 8.691E, 54.408N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2024-09-02T08:41:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2024-09-13T12:15:00Z