A Southern Indian Ocean hydrographic database obtained with instrumented elephant seals. ...
For around a decade, southern elephant seals (mirounga leonina) have been used to collect hydrographic (temperature & salinity) profiles in the Southern Ocean. CTD-SRDLs (Conductivity Temperature Depth –Satellite Relayed Data Loggers) attached to seals' heads in Antarctic and sub-Antarctic...
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ftdatacite:10.5285/f8f4dc5f-2eed-24ef-e044-000b5de50f38 2024-04-28T07:58:31+00:00 A Southern Indian Ocean hydrographic database obtained with instrumented elephant seals. ... Roquet, Fabien Guinet, Christophe Hindell, Mark 2014 Network Common Data Form Ocean Data View https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/f8f4dc5f-2eed-24ef-e044-000b5de50f38 http://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/f8f4dc5f-2eed-24ef-e044-000b5de50f38/ en eng British Oceanographic Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council oceans elevation location dataset Dataset 2014 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5285/f8f4dc5f-2eed-24ef-e044-000b5de50f38 2024-04-02T10:53:54Z For around a decade, southern elephant seals (mirounga leonina) have been used to collect hydrographic (temperature & salinity) profiles in the Southern Ocean. CTD-SRDLs (Conductivity Temperature Depth –Satellite Relayed Data Loggers) attached to seals' heads in Antarctic and sub-Antarctic locations measure water property profiles during dives and transmit data using the ARGOS (Advanced Research & Global Observation Satellite) network (Fedak 2013). CTD-SRDLs are built by the Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU, University of St Andrews, UK); they include miniaturised CTD units made by Valeport Ltd. When seals are foraging at sea 2.5 profiles can be obtained daily, on average. Profiles average 500m depth, but can be 2000m in extreme cases (Boehme et al. 2009, Roquet et al. 2011). Deployment efforts have been very intensive in the Southern Indian Ocean, with biannual campaigns in the Kerguelen Islands since 2004 and many deployments in Davis and Casey Antarctic stations (Roquet et al., 2013) more recently. ... Dataset Antarc* Antarctic Elephant Seals Kerguelen Islands Mirounga leonina Southern Elephant Seals Southern Ocean DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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For around a decade, southern elephant seals (mirounga leonina) have been used to collect hydrographic (temperature & salinity) profiles in the Southern Ocean. CTD-SRDLs (Conductivity Temperature Depth –Satellite Relayed Data Loggers) attached to seals' heads in Antarctic and sub-Antarctic locations measure water property profiles during dives and transmit data using the ARGOS (Advanced Research & Global Observation Satellite) network (Fedak 2013). CTD-SRDLs are built by the Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU, University of St Andrews, UK); they include miniaturised CTD units made by Valeport Ltd. When seals are foraging at sea 2.5 profiles can be obtained daily, on average. Profiles average 500m depth, but can be 2000m in extreme cases (Boehme et al. 2009, Roquet et al. 2011). Deployment efforts have been very intensive in the Southern Indian Ocean, with biannual campaigns in the Kerguelen Islands since 2004 and many deployments in Davis and Casey Antarctic stations (Roquet et al., 2013) more recently. ... |
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A Southern Indian Ocean hydrographic database obtained with instrumented elephant seals. ... |
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A Southern Indian Ocean hydrographic database obtained with instrumented elephant seals. ... |
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A Southern Indian Ocean hydrographic database obtained with instrumented elephant seals. ... |
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A Southern Indian Ocean hydrographic database obtained with instrumented elephant seals. ... |
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A Southern Indian Ocean hydrographic database obtained with instrumented elephant seals. ... |
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southern indian ocean hydrographic database obtained with instrumented elephant seals. ... |
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Antarc* Antarctic Elephant Seals Kerguelen Islands Mirounga leonina Southern Elephant Seals Southern Ocean |
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