Abstract

The In Situ Analysis System (ISAS) was developed to produce gridded fields of temperature and salinity that preserve as much as possible the time and space sampling capabilities of the Argo network of profiling floats. Since the first global re-analysis performed in 2009, the system has been extended to accommodate all types of vertical profile as well as time series. ISAS gridded fields are entirely based on in-situ measurements. The system aims at monitoring the time evolution of ocean properties for climatological studies and allowing easy computation of climate indices. A careful delayed mode processing of the 2002-2015 dataset has been carried out using version 7 of ISAS and updating the statistics to produce the ISAS-15 analysis.

Distribution of benthic invertebrate species in Atlantic based on cumulative and interpolated relative abundance density data from fisheries surveys EVHOE (2008-2013), LANGOLF (2011-2013), NURSE (2000-2013), ORHAGO (2011-2015)

Modelised abundance of species or prediction uncertainty.

Abundances were recoded in term of presence-absence. Geostatistical interpolation : the spatial variation of biological data were analysed using GENSTAT (GENSTAT 7 Committee, 2004), which is a GENeral STATistics package including the main geostatistical tools. It computes experimentala variograms, fits these with various authorised mathematical models and uses them to calculate kriged estimates on a fine regular grid (of latitudes and longitudes). The grid of points was imported into ArcMap and interpolated with the Spatial Analyst extension in order to create a continuous raster of 1 km² resolution. The resulting maps illustrate the spatial distributions and the variations over time for biological data studied in CHARM's area. For legends of maps, approximates of the 5th and the 95th quantiles were used for the minimales and maximales values respectively.

Modelised abundance of species or prediction uncertainty.

Species habitat occupation, observed during the third quarter IBTS from 1980 to 2010, has been expressed as rare, occasional, frequent, recurrent depending on density levels and variability over time.

Species habitat occupation, observed during the first quarter IBTS from 1980 to 2010, has been expressed as rare, occasional, frequent, recurrent depending on density levels and variability over time.

Species habitat occupation, observed during the third quarter IBTS from 1980 to 2010, has been expressed as rare, occasional, frequent, recurrent depending on density levels and variability over time.

Species habitat occupation, observed during the third quarter IBTS from 1991 to 2010, has been expressed as rare, occasional, frequent, recurrent depending on density levels and variability over time.