Schütte Florian fschuette@geomar.de 0000-0002-4846-1434 GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel GEOMAR http://www.geomar.de https://ror.org/02h2x0161 Hans Anna Christina ahans@geomar.de 0000-0002-6118-6959 GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel GEOMAR http://www.geomar.de https://ror.org/02h2x0161 Schulz Marco mschulz@geomar.de GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel GEOMAR http://www.geomar.de https://ror.org/02h2x0161 Hummels Rebecca rhummels@geomar.de 0000-0002-3746-6213 GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel GEOMAR http://www.geomar.de https://ror.org/02h2x0161 Assokpa Olivier Brandt Peter pbrandt@geomar.de 0000-0002-9235-955X GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel GEOMAR http://www.geomar.de https://ror.org/02h2x0161 Kiko Rainer rkiko@geomar.de 0000-0002-7851-9107 GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel GEOMAR http://www.geomar.de https://ror.org/02h2x0161 Körtzinger Arne akoertzinger@geomar.de 0000-0002-8181-3593 GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel GEOMAR http://www.geomar.de https://ror.org/02h2x0161 Fiedler Björn bfiedler@geomar.de 0000-0001-8525-8446 GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel GEOMAR http://www.geomar.de https://ror.org/02h2x0161 Fischer Tim tfischer@geomar.de 0000-0001-7025-1129 GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel GEOMAR http://www.geomar.de https://ror.org/02h2x0161 Rodrigues Elizandro elizandro.rodrigues@oscm.cv Hoving Henk-Jan T hhoving@geomar.de 0000-0002-4330-6507 GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel GEOMAR http://www.geomar.de https://ror.org/02h2x0161 Hauss Helena heha@norceresearch.no 0000-0002-0754-3388 GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel GEOMAR http://www.geomar.de https://ror.org/02h2x0161 2026 Observational insights into the enhanced biological productivity of the Cape Verde Archipelago dataset editorial publication https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.980861 2026-04-17T12:23:01 The Cape Verde Archipelago (CVA) is a hotspot of biological productivity in the oligotrophic central North Atlantic, supporting a highly diverse ecosystem. Twenty years of interdisciplinary observational data reveal the physical processes driving this productivity and their impacts on the composition of biological life across the food web of the CVA. The dataset consists of various interdisciplinary datasets conducted over the past decades during a large number of field campaigns with different objectives. During the cruises, underway horizontal velocity measurements were obtained from a 38 kHz, a 75 kHz or a 350 kHz RDI Ocean Surveyor (OS) vessel mounted Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (vmADCP). The accuracy of the used 1-hr averaged vmADCP data is better than 0.02 – 0.04 m s-1 (J. Fischer et al., 2003). All velocity data were combined to obtain an average picture of the velocity structure in the archipelago.Turbulence dissipation rates were derived from shipboard microstructure measurements which were frequently conducted during three research cruises in the CVA. Hydrographic data were acquired during the research cruises using a Seabird Conductivity, Temperature, Depth (CTD) sonde. After calibration, the data accuracies for a single research cruise are generally assumed to be better than ±0.001 °C for temperature and ±0.004 g kg-1 for salinity. The profiling system used was an MSS90-D profiler, manufactured by Sea & Sun Technology. The loosely-tethered profiler is optimized to sink at a rate of about 0.6 m s-1. During seven cruises in different seasons between 2012 and 2019, mesozooplankton samples were collected from vertically stratified hauls with a Hydrobios Multinet Midi (five nets, 200 µm mesh size). Schütte Florian fschuette@geomar.de 0000-0002-4846-1434 Hans Anna Christina ahans@geomar.de 0000-0002-6118-6959 Schulz Marco mschulz@geomar.de Hummels Rebecca rhummels@geomar.de 0000-0002-3746-6213 Assokpa Olivier Brandt Peter pbrandt@geomar.de 0000-0002-9235-955X Kiko Rainer rkiko@geomar.de 0000-0002-7851-9107 Körtzinger Arne akoertzinger@geomar.de 0000-0002-8181-3593 Fiedler Björn bfiedler@geomar.de 0000-0001-8525-8446 Fischer Tim tfischer@geomar.de 0000-0001-7025-1129 Rodrigues Elizandro elizandro.rodrigues@oscm.cv Hoving Henk-Jan T hhoving@geomar.de 0000-0002-4330-6507 Hauss Helena heha@norceresearch.no 0000-0002-0754-3388 2025 Linking physical processes to biological responses: Interdisciplinary observational insights into the enhanced biological productivity of the Cape Verde Archipelago journal article Progress in Oceanography 235 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2025.103479 103479 -61.5386 14.503 -22.941 49.3445 -24.13510665260385 13.789011222319939 2007-02-10T17:11:27 2022-03-16T08:56:00 European Commission EC https://commission.europa.eu/index_en https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000780 101112823 DTO-BioFlow European Commission EC https://commission.europa.eu/index_en https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000780 101156488 SeaDots 34 CC-BY-4.0 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ geomar author106819 author110497 author21988 author28179 author31826 author35687 author36884 author40827 author47811 author49328 author56385 author57623 author75066 award3737 award3738 funder20653 geocode1599 geocode1600 geocode1601 inst20147 journal13363 license21 ref132848 term242