TY - JOUR
T1 - Mean hydrography on the continental shelf from 26 repeat glider deployments along Southeastern Australia
AU - Schaeffer, Amandine
AU - Roughan, Moninya
AU - Austin, Tim
AU - Everett, Jason D.
AU - Griffin, David
AU - Hollings, Ben
AU - King, Edward
AU - Mantovanelli, Alessandra
AU - Milburn, Stuart
AU - Pasquer, Benedicte
AU - Pattiaratchi, Charitha
AU - Robertson, Robin
AU - Stanley, Dennis
AU - Suthers, Iain
AU - White, Dana
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PY - 2016/8/30
Y1 - 2016/8/30
N2 - Since 2008, 26 glider missions have been undertaken along the continental shelf of southeastern Australia. Typically these missions have spanned the continental shelf on the inshore edge of the East Australian Current from 29.5-33.5°S. This comprehensive dataset of over 33,600 CTD profiles from the surface to within 10 m of the bottom in water depths ranging 25-200 m provides new and unprecedented high resolution observations of the properties of the continental shelf waters adjacent to a western boundary current, straddling the region where it separates from the coast. The region is both physically and biologically significant, and is also in a hotspot of ocean warming. We present gridded mean fields for temperature, salinity and density, but also dissolved oxygen and chlorophyll-a fluorescence indicative of phytoplankton biomass. This data will be invaluable for understanding shelf stratification, circulation, biophysical and bio-geochemical interactions, as well as for the validation of high-resolution ocean models or serving as teaching material.
AB - Since 2008, 26 glider missions have been undertaken along the continental shelf of southeastern Australia. Typically these missions have spanned the continental shelf on the inshore edge of the East Australian Current from 29.5-33.5°S. This comprehensive dataset of over 33,600 CTD profiles from the surface to within 10 m of the bottom in water depths ranging 25-200 m provides new and unprecedented high resolution observations of the properties of the continental shelf waters adjacent to a western boundary current, straddling the region where it separates from the coast. The region is both physically and biologically significant, and is also in a hotspot of ocean warming. We present gridded mean fields for temperature, salinity and density, but also dissolved oxygen and chlorophyll-a fluorescence indicative of phytoplankton biomass. This data will be invaluable for understanding shelf stratification, circulation, biophysical and bio-geochemical interactions, as well as for the validation of high-resolution ocean models or serving as teaching material.
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U2 - 10.1038/sdata.2016.70
DO - 10.1038/sdata.2016.70
M3 - Article
C2 - 27575831
AN - SCOPUS:84984984839
SN - 2052-4463
VL - 3
SP - 1
EP - 12
JO - Scientific Data
JF - Scientific Data
M1 - 160070
ER -