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Oceanography Aquatic Science Ross Sea Geology LTER LTER-Italy Marine biogeochemical cycles Terra Nova Bay acidification climate change physical oceanography plankton and benthos ecology web-gis Cross-shelf exchange Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Tidal mixing Warm water intrusion Air-sea-ice interaction Antarctica General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology General Chemistry General Physics and Astronomy High Salinity Shelf Water Interannual variability Katabatic wind OSCR-II Terra Nova Bay polynya Terra Nova Bay polynya High Salinity Shelf Water Interannual variability Katabatic wind Air–sea–ice interaction Vertical temperature profiles were taken in January 2010 from the research vessel Italica during an oceanographic cruise between New Zealand and the Ross Sea in the framework of the Climatic Long Term Interaction for the Mass-balance in Antarctica (CLIMA) phase IV project of the Italian National Antarctic Research Programme (PNRA) using Sippican T7 Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) with a vertical resolution of 65 cm and a maximum nominal depth of 760 m. Ship speed lower than 15 kn allows the probe to reach about 900 m depth. The transects were completed during 5 days to provide a synoptic picture of the thermal structure of the upper Southern Ocean. A regular 15 nm spatial sampling rate was adopted across the frontal regions of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. All temperature profiles are quality controlled for consistency between adjacent profiles and by spike editing. Data are in TXT format polynya