COAST-HF-Marel-Iroise buoy’s time series (French Research Infrastructure ILICO) : long-term high-frequency monitoring of the Bay of Brest and Iroise sea hydrology

The COAST-HF-MAREL-Iroise buoy is a scientific plateform to monitor at high frequency (subhourly) and for long term (since 2000) the coastal ecosystem of the Bay of Brest, which is impacted by both continental and Iroise Sea inputs.This buoy is a part of the national observation network COAST-HF - COAstal ocean observing system-HighFrequency (http://www.coast-hf.fr) from the ILICO research infrastructure (https://www.ir-ilico.fr) and is property of IUEM (Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer) and Ifremer. The buoy is moored at 200 m of the coast at the outlet of the Bay of Brest where manual sampling is also performed for the weekly observation network SOMLIT-Portzic (https://www.somlit.fr/). Both data…