Oceanographic profile temperature and salinity data collected by instrumented marine mammals in the Southern Ocean, South Atlantic and other locations for the Marine Mammals Exploring the Oceans Pole to Pole (MEOP) project from 2004-01-27 to 2015-05-26 (NCEI Accession 0131830)

• Format: Dataset
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• Published: NOAA NCEI Environmental Data Archive 2016
• Subjects: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; 0131830; 131830; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; SALINITY; WATER TEMPERATURE; CTD; Marine Animal Recording Tag; physical; profile; Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research; Argentina Antarctic Institute; Brazilian National Research Council; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Chinese National Arctic and Antarctic Data Center; Department of Fisheries and Oceans; Greenland Institute of Natural Resources; L'Institut Polaire Francais Paul-Emile Victor; Norway Research Council; Norwegian Polar Institute; South African National Antarctic Programme; The Observatory Midi-Pyrénées; Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS); Marine Mammals Exploring the Oceans Pole to Pole (MEOP); South African National Antarctic Programme (SANAP); Arctic Ocean; Baffin Bay; Barents Sea; Davis Strait; Gulf of St. Lawrence; Indian Ocean; Labrador Sea; North Atlantic Ocean; North Greenland Sea; North Sea; Norwegian Sea; South Atlantic Ocean; South Pacific Ocean; Southern Oceans (> 60 degrees South); Tasman Sea; oceanography; Arctic; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Greenland; Pacific; Norway; Indian; Argentina; Paul-Emile Victor; Alfred Wegener Institute; Antarc*; Baffin; Greenland Sea; North Atlantic; North Greenland
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Some marine mammals travel thousands of kilometres to find their food, continuously diving to great depths. By instrumenting them, it is possible to directly observe their foraging behaviour. Simultaneously, we collect unique oceanographic data in the remote Polar regions. The MEOP consortium (MEOP stands for "Marine Mammals Exploring the Oceans Pole to Pole") brings together several national programmes to produce a comprehensive quality-controlled database of oceanographic data obtained in Polar Regions from instrumented marine mammals.