Physical oceanography on board of POLARSTERN (1983-11-22 to 2016-02-14) ...

• Main Authors: Rohardt, Gerd, Fahrbach, Eberhard, Beszczynska-Möller, Agnieszka, Boetius, Antje, Brunßen, Jutta, Budéus, Gereon, Cisewski, Boris, Engbrodt, Ralph, Gauger, Steffen, Geibert, Walter, Geprägs, Patrizia, Gerdes, Dieter, Gersonde, Rainer, Gordon, Arnold L, Hellmer, Hartmut H, Isla, Enrique, Jacobs, Stanley S, Janout, Markus A, Jokat, Wilfried, Klages, Michael, Kuhn, Gerhard, Meincke, Jens, Ober, Sven, Østerhus, Svein, Peterson, Ray G, Rabe, Benjamin, Rudels, Bert, Schauer, Ursula, Schröder, Michael, Sildam, Jüri, Soltwedel, Thomas, Stangeew, Elena, Stein, Manfred, Strass, Volker H, Thiede, Jörn, Tippenhauer, Sandra, Veth, Cornelis, von Appen, Wilken-Jon, Weirig, Marie-France, Wisotzki, Andreas, Wolf-Gladrow, Dieter A, Kanzow, Torsten
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2016
• Subjects: Campaign; Date/time start; Date/time end; Authors; Principal investigator; Number of observations; Method comment; Ocean and sea region; Persistent Identifier; Quality code; Uniform resource locator/link to image; Uniform resource locator/link to reference; Physical Oceanography @ AWI AWI_PhyOce; Antarc*; Antarctic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.860066; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.860066

Measuring temperature and salinity profiles in the world's oceans is crucial to understanding ocean dynamics and its influence on the heat budget, the water cycle, the marine environment and on our climate. Since 1983 the German research vessel and icebreaker Polarstern has been the platform of numerous CTD (conductivity, temperature, depth instrument) deployments in the Arctic and the Antarctic. We report on a unique data collection spanning 33 years of polar CTD data. In total 131 data sets (1 data set per cruise leg) containing data from 10 063 CTD casts are now freely available. During this long period five CTD types with different characteristics and accuracies have been used. Therefore the instruments and processing procedures (sensor calibration, data validation, etc.) are described in detail. This compilation is special not only with regard to the quantity but also the quality of the data - the latter indicated for each data set using defined quality codes. The complete data collection includes a ... : Supplement to: Driemel, Amelie; Fahrbach, Eberhard; Rohardt, Gerd; Beszczynska-Möller, Agnieszka; Boetius, Antje; Budéus, Gereon; Cisewski, Boris; Engbrodt, Ralph; Gauger, Steffen; Geibert, Walter; Geprägs, Patrizia; Gerdes, Dieter; Gersonde, Rainer; Gordon, Arnold L; Grobe, Hannes; Hellmer, Hartmut H; Isla, Enrique; Jacobs, Stanley S; Janout, Markus A; Jokat, Wilfried; Klages, Michael; Kuhn, Gerhard; Meincke, Jens; Ober, Sven; Østerhus, Svein; Peterson, Ray G; Rabe, Benjamin; Rudels, Bert; Schauer, Ursula; Schumacher, Stefanie; Schröder, Michael; Sieger, Rainer; Sildam, Jüri; Soltwedel, Thomas; Stangeew, Elena; Stein, Manfred; Strass, Volker H; Thiede, Jörn; Tippenhauer, Sandra; Veth, Cornelis; von Appen, Wilken-Jon; Weirig, Marie-France; Wisotzki, Andreas; Wolf-Gladrow, Dieter A; Kanzow, Torsten (2017): From pole to pole: 33 years of physical oceanography onboard R/V Polarstern. Earth System Science Data, 9(1), 211-220 ...