Traces of available temperature/salinity data collected by sensors attached to marine mammals

Almost all in situ oceanic data in the Southern Ocean were collected in austral summer. Few exceptions are these data collected by marine mammals carrying CTD (conductivity-temperature-depth profiler). We only show the geographic location of data. Data can be downloaded from the MEOP website.

Roquet, F., et al. (2013), Estimates of the Southern Ocean general circulation improved by animal-borne instruments, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 6176–6180, doi:10.1002/2013GL058304.

Roquet F., Wunsch C., Forget G., Heimbach P., Guinet C., Reverdin G., Charrassin J.-B., Bailleul F., Costa D. P., Huckstadt L. A., Goetz K. T., Kovacs K. M., Lydersen C., Biuw M., Nøst O. A., Bornemann H., Ploetz, J., Bester M. N., Mcintyre T., Muelbert M. C., Hindell M. A., McMahon C. R., Williams G., Harcourt R., Field I. C., Chafik L., Nicholls K. W., Boehme L., and Fedak M. A., 2013. Estimates of the Southern Ocean General Circulation Improved by Animal-Borne Instruments. Geoph. Res. Letts., 40:1-5. doi: 10.1002/2013GL058304.

RRRoquet F., Williams G., Hindell M. A., Harcourt R., McMahon C. R., Guinet C., Charrassin J.-B., Reverdin G., Boehme L., Lovell P. and Fedak M. A., 2014. A Southern Indian Ocean database of hydrographic profiles obtained with instrumented elephant seals. Nature Scientific Data, 1:140028, doi: 10.1038/sdata.2014.28.

Boehme L., Lovell P., Biuw M., Roquet F., Nicholson J., Thorpe S. E., Meredith M. P., and Fedak M., 2009. Technical Note: Animal-borne CTD-Satellite Relay Data Loggers for real-time oceanographic data collection. Ocean Sci., 5:685-695. doi: 10.5194/os-5-685-2009 [PDF]

RRRoquet F., Charrassin J.-B., Marchand S., Boehme L., Fedak M., Reverdin G., and Guinet C., 2011. Validating hydrographic data obtained from seal-borne satellite-relayed data loggers. J. Atmosph. And Ocean. Tech., 28:787-801. doi: 10.1175/2010JTECHO801.1 [PDF]

http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2013GL058304

Downloaded
17 July 2017
Downloaded as an ODV project and exported to NetCDF. Exported from NetCDF as a flat table with all variables and imported from a CSV table to SHP.

See README.txt in the data folder for more information.

The marine mammal data were collected and made freely available by the International MEOP Consortium and the national programs that contribute to it. (http://www.meop.net). See individual data records for data download and citation information.

Editor
Oceanography
Katsuro Katsumata
k.katsumata@jamstec.go.jp

Author
Fabien Roquet
info@meop.net