Open AccessSeal‐borne sensors are valuable for studies of Southern Ocean conditions
Author(s) -
Balcerak Ernie
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1002/2014eo060011
Subject(s) - hydrography , oceanography , sampling (signal processing) , seal (emblem) , salinity , temperature salinity diagrams , environmental science , data set , geology , remote sensing , meteorology , geography , computer science , telecommunications , archaeology , artificial intelligence , detector
Icy conditions make it difficult to monitor the southern part of the Southern Ocean using floats or ship‐based sampling. For about a decade, scientists have been mounting temperature and salinity sensors on the heads of seals from several colonies around Antarctica. There is now a fairly large data set of seal‐derived hydrographic data.