Catalogue PIGMA
Sea Mammals as an ocean observation component
Since 2004, several hundred seals have been equipped with conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) sensors in the Southern Ocean for both biological and physical oceanographic studies. A calibrated collection of seal-derived hydrographic data is now available from Coriolis, currently consisting of more than 300,000 temperature/salinity profiles.
Delayed mode data, December 2014
https://doi.org/10.12770/0a82d60c-683d-47b8-8bd1-24933ec24983
on the Coriolis ftp server, in /ifremer/marine_mammals/.
In a near future (summer 2015), seal data will be updated daily, and a monthly snapshot of the full database will be produced.
through the Coriolis data selection tool (Sea mammal or Animal profiles).
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2004-01-01T00:00:00
- Identifier
- 99e07802-e8cb-48c8-a1f9-f2b6265c8870
- Status
- onGoing On going
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Keywords
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- Sea Mammals
- global ocean observing system
- ocean circulation
- in-situ
- ocean pressure
- sea water temperature
- sea water salinity
- multi-year
- weather climate and seasonal observation
- global-ocean
- Keywords
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- Sea Elephants
- Centre de données ODATIS
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- CDS-CORIOLIS
- Research Infrastructure
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- IR-ARGO
- Type de jeux de donnée ODATIS
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- /Observational data/in-situ
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Please cite the following papers if you use marine mammal data in a publication:
Roquet F., Williams G., Hindell M. A., Harcourt R., McMahon C. R., Guinet C., Charrassin J.-B., Reverdin G., Boehme L., Lovell P. and Fedak M. A., 2014. A Southern Indian Ocean database of hydrographic profiles obtained with instrumented elephant seals. Nature Scientific Data, 1:140028, doi: 10.1038/sdata.2014.28.
Roquet F., Wunsch C., Forget G., Heimbach P., Guinet C., Reverdin G., Charrassin J.-B., Bailleul F., Costa D. P., Huckstadt L. A., Goetz K. T., Kovacs K. M., Lydersen C., Biuw M., Nøst O. A., Bornemann H., Ploetz, J., Bester M. N., Mcintyre T., Muelbert M. C., Hindell M. A., McMahon C. R., Williams G., Harcourt R., Field I. C., Chafik L., Nicholls K. W., Boehme L., and Fedak M. A., 2013. Estimates of the Southern Ocean General Circulation Improved by Animal-Borne Instruments. Geoph. Res. Letts., 40:1-5. doi: 10.1002/2013GL058304
- Use limitation
- A user of Argo data is expected to read and understand this manual and the documentation about the data contained in the "attributes" of the NetCDF data files, as these contain essential information about data quality and accuracy.
- Spatial representation type
- vector Vector
- Denominator
- 1000000
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- utf8 UTF8
- Topic category
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- Oceans
- Begin date
- 2004-01-01
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- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / WGS 84 (EPSG:4326) / 7.9
- Topology level
- Geometry only
- Geometric object type
- Point
- Geometric object count
- 1000000000
- Distribution format
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- OnLine resource
- ftp://eftp.ifremer.fr ( WWW:DOWNLOAD )
- OnLine resource
- https://doi.org/10.12770/0a82d60c-683d-47b8-8bd1-24933ec24983 ( DOI )
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Absolute external positional accuracy
Conformance result
- Date (Creation)
- 2004-01-01
- Explanation
- Non évalué
- Pass
- No
- Statement
- http://www.coriolis.eu.org
- File identifier
- 98b66603-1b2c-47ec-8af1-ddbadda0ae72 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-05-15T23:25:52.505442Z
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115-3 - SEXTANT
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
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