MARINE OBSERVATION SOURCE · S018
MEOP-CTD / MEOP-SMS / MEOP-TDR
Discover marine observations available through MEOP-CTD / MEOP-SMS / MEOP-TDR, including parameters, platforms, spatial and temporal coverage, metadata, and access methods.
- Operator
- MEOP consortium
- Role
- Animal-borne profile archive
- Platforms
- Instrumented marine mammals
- Observed variables
- Temperature; salinity; pressure/depth; high-density T/light in TDR; submesoscale CTD in SMS
- Spatial coverage
- Global high-latitudes, especially Southern Ocean and North Pacific/Atlantic
- Period
- 2004-present for MEOP-CTD; database version dependent
- Depth coverage
- Surface to animal dive depth, often hundreds to >1000 m
- QC and data mode
- Quality-controlled adjusted profiles; QC/error fields
- Access method
- Download list_profiles/list_tags/list_deployments CSV; filter locally; then retrieve public NetCDF bundle
- Indexed download targets
- 3
Canonical parameters
- Practical salinity
practical_salinity - Sea-water pressure
sea_water_pressure - Sea-water temperature
sea_water_temperature
Discovery and access
Very useful because metadata CSVs are already shaped like an existence index.