Sea Mammals as an ocean observation component
Sea Surface SalinitySea Surface TemperatureSea turtles abundance and distributionMarine mammals abundance and distribution
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).
Data and resources
Additional information
| Temporal extent | 2004-01-01 – ongoing |
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| Date (publication) | 2004-01-01 |
| Status | onGoing |
| Update frequency | asNeeded |
| Metadata language | en |
| License | 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. |
| Source metadata | ISO 19115 XML |
| Last updated | 2026-11-04 |
| Created | 2026-11-04 |
| API | package_show |