%0 journal article %@ 1866-3508 %A Petersen, W., Reinke, S., Breitbach, G., Petschatnikov, M., Wehde, H., Thomas, H. %D 2018 %J Earth System Science Data %N 3 %P 1729-1734 %R doi:10.5194/essd-10-1729-2018 %T FerryBox Data in the North Sea from 2002 to 2005 %U https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1729-2018 3 %X From 2002 to 2005 a FerryBox system was installed aboard two different ferries travelling between Cuxhaven (GE) and Harwich (UK) on a daily basis. The FerryBox system is an automated flow-through monitoring system for measuring oceanographic and biogeochemical parameters installed on ships of opportunity. The variables were recorded in a time interval of 10–20 seconds corresponding to a spatial resolution of about 100 m. The dataset provides the parameters water temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen and chlorophyll-a fluorescence. There is a longer data gap between November 2002 and August 2003 in the time series due to a change of the vessel in October 2002. The data are available at doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.883824 and as part of the COSYNA data portal CODM at http://codm.hzg.de/codm or doi:10.17616/R3K02T.