Water temperature and salinity data from southern elephant seals from Marion Island ...

• Main Authors: Roquet, Fabien, Wunsch, Stefan, Forget, Gael, Heimbach, Patrick, Guinet, Christophe, Reverdin, Gilles, Charrassin, Jean-Benoît, Bailleul, Frederic, Costa, Daniel P, Huckstadt, Luis A, Goetz, Kimberly T, Kovacs, Kit Maureen, Lydersen, Christian, Biuw, Martin, Nøst, Ole Anders, Bornemann, Horst, Plötz, Joachim, Bester, Marthán Nieuwoudt, McIntyre, Trevor, Muelbert, Monica C, Hindell, Mark A, McMahon, Clive R, Williams, Guy, Harcourt, Robert, Field, Iain C, Chafik, Leon, Nicholls, Keith W, Boehme, Lars, Fedak, Mike A
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2013
• Subjects: Marine Mammal Tracking MMT; Antarc*; Antarctic; Elephant Seals; Marion Island; Sea ice; Southern Elephant Seals; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.831364; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.831364

Over the last decade, several hundred seals have been equipped with conductivity-temperature-depth sensors in the Southern Ocean for both biological and physical oceanographic studies. A calibrated collection of seal-derived hydrographic data is now available, consisting of more than 165,000 profile...