NAPv1.0: A seasonal hydrographic gridded data set for the Northern Antarctic Peninsula, Southern Ocean ...

• Main Authors: Dotto, Tiago S., Kerr, Rodrigo, Mata, Mauricio M., Garcia, Carlos A. E.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Southern Ocean, Northern Antarctic Peninsula, Climatology, Hydrography, 21st-Century; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Southern Ocean; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4420006; https://zenodo.org/record/4420006

The Northern Antarctic Peninsula (NAP) climatology version 1 (NAPv1.0) was built by optimally interpolate hydrographic data sets from the CTD, MEOP and Argo floats profiles sampled in the NAP and adjacent regions during the period of 1990-2019. The database consists of data from the World Ocean Database, Pangaea, Hutchinson et al. (2020), Brazilian High Latitude Oceanography Group (GOAL; http://goal.furg.br/), Marine Mammals Exploring the Oceans Pole to Pole consortium (MEOP), and Argo floats. The climatology has outputs for summer (Jan-Mar), autumn (Apr-Jun), winter (Jul-Sep) and spring (Oct-Dec). The profiles were first linearly interpolated onto 90 depth levels, and then optimally interpolated in space using a grid of ~10 km resolution. The grid spacing is 0.09˚ along latitudes and 0.2˚ along longitudes (i.e., 0.09˚ latitude x 0.09˚/cos(63˚S) longitude, where 63˚S is the mean latitude of our domain). A series of tests were made to find the appropriate smoothing lengthscale and the a priori relative error ... : The NAPv1.0 climatology was created by the Brazilian High Latitude Oceanography Group (GOAL). If you want to contact the GOAL group, please, visit https://www.goal.furg.br/ or send us an email at [e-mail], [e-mail] or [e-mail] ...