The Gulf of Pozzuoli, a marginal sub-basin of the Tyrrhenian Sea, has a longstanding tradition of bivalve mollusk farming. Despite its historical importance, the area faces significant anthropogenic pressures, particularly from the decommissioned industrial site at Bagnoli. Seasonal monitoring data indicate peaks in mussel contamination by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in late autumn and early winter. This study anal...

We analyze 20 years (2001–2020) of temperature and salinity profiles at the LTER–MC coastal station in the Gulf of Naples, Mediterranean Sea. Surface and bottom layers show weak increases of temperature ( and , 2005–2019); water‐columns budgets (heat, freshwater) show pseudo‐periodic oscillations every 3 to 5 years, and weak linear trends. Seasonal minimum of salinity occurs 2 months later than the runoff peak, pointing to the...

The seasonality of the vertical mixing at coastal sites is not well characterized yet. Here, a time series of the dissipation rate of turbulent kinetic energy (ε) was obtained from weekly morning microstructure observations covering the destratification period (July 2015, February 2016) at a coastal site in the western Mediterranean Sea, influenced by freshwater runoffs. Estimated with bulk parameters from the public re-analyz...

The InSEA project (“ In itiatives in S upporting the consolidation and enhancement of the E MSO research infrastructure consortium (ERIC) and related A ctivities”) has the objective, as the full name of the project indicates, to consolidate and strengthen the infrastructures concerning the EMSO (“European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water column Observatory”) ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium) and all those...

Surface gravity waves retrieved by a network of HF (High Frequency) radars and measured in situ by an ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler) current meter connected to an elastic beacon were used to carry out a multiple-year characterization of the wave field of the Gulf of Naples (south-eastern Tyrrhenian Sea, western Mediterranean). The aim of the work was to create a climatology of the study area and to demonstrate the po...