Database on the Bioluminescence Field of the World's Oceans

The database is being assembled from the vertical profiles and horizontal continuous records of bioluminescence, chlorophyll-a, zooplankton and CTD's obtained by the Former Soviet Union (FSU) expeditions to the World's oceans during the previous 30 years in the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Antarctic Oceans and the Mediterranean Sea. The database will be PC based and a CD-ROM of the database will be published. The database will be used to investigate the quantitative relationship between the hydrological parameters, chlorophyll-a, zooplankton concentration and bioluminescence intensity over the regions.

Potentially, the database will include approximately 15000 bioluminescence profiles obtained in the upper 100m layer: 4150 bioluminescent profiles from the Atlantic Ocean 5200 bioluminescent profiles from the Pacific Ocean 850 bioluminescent profiles from the Indian Ocean 3800 bioluminescent profiles from the Mediterranean Sea basin 1000 bioluminescent profiles from the Norwegian and Barents Seas As well as the CD-ROM, the project aims to publish an averaged annual map of the bioluminescence field of the tropical and subtropical regions of the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian Oceans and the Mediterranean basin.