Authors: Anne M. Treasure, Fabien Roquet, Isabelle J. Ansorge, Marthán N Bester, Lars Boehme, Horst Bornemann, Jean-Benoît Charrassin, Damien Chevallier, Daniel P. Costa, Michael A. Fedak, Christophe Guinet, Mike O. Hammill, Robert Harcourt, Mark A. Hindell, Kit M. Kovacs, Mary-Anne Lea, Philip Lovell, Andrew D. Lowther, Christian Lydersen, Trevor McIntyre, Clive R. McMahon, Mônica M. C. Muelbert, Keith W. Nicholls, Baptiste Picard, Gilles Reverdin, Andrew W. Trites, Guy D. Williams, P J Nico de Bruyn
Venue: Oceanography
Type: Publication
Abstract: Polar oceans are poorly monitored despite the important role they play in regulating Earth’s climate system. Marine mammals equipped with biologging devices are now being used to fill the data gaps in these logistically difficult to sample regions. Since 2002, instrumented animals have been generating exceptionally large data sets of oceanographic CTD casts (>500,000 profiles), which are now freely available to the scientific community through the MEOP data portal (http://meop.net). MEOP (Marine Mammals Exploring the Oceans Pole to Pole) is a...
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Oceanography
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