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Southern Ocean Continuous Zooplankton Records

Entry ID: AADC-00099

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Summary

Abstract: This dataset contains results from Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) surveys in the Southern Ocean. When the opportunity arises, zooplankton species, numbers and abundance data are recorded on a continuous basis as vessels steam through the area between Australia and Antarctica, including Heard and Macquarie Islands. Observations have been made since June 1990 and are ongoing. Obviously the ...

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Link: GET DATA

Description: Download point for the dataset

Link: GET DATA

Description: Entry point for on-line database

Link: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

Description: Download a copy of all CPR voyage reports

Link: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

Description: Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset

Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: -40.0

S: -70.0

E: 180.0

W: -180.0

Data Set Citation

Dataset Release Date: 2012-05-28

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1990-06-01

Stop Date: 2010-03-27

Location Keywords

OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Science Keywords

BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ARTHROPODS > CRUSTACEANS > EUPHAUSIIDS (KRILL)
BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES

ISO Topic Category

BIOTA

OCEANS

Platform

R/V AA > R/V Aurora Australis
R/V POLARSTERN

Instrument

CPR > Continuous Plankton Recorder

Project

OBIS > OCEAN BIOGEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM

IPY > INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR

Quality Caution: Fluorometry is measured differently on each vessel and are thus not directly comparable between vessels. See the summary for further details.

The end of each sampling segment is geocoded with latitude and longitude calculated from the one minute time-stamped GPS data. "Segment Length" is the distance in nautical miles for each segment, which is calculated ...

Access Constraints The data are available for download from the provided URL.

Presence records of known species (with no abundance value) are published via DiGIR web services to SCAR-MarBIN, OBIS and GBIF data portals.

Use the download link below to a web page showing voyages, maps of tracks and species distribution maps of the area between Australia and Antarctica.

Scanned ...

Use Constraints This data set conforms to the PICCCBY Attribution License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=AADC-00099 when using these data.

Please contact the investigators before using these data, as some ...

Ancillary Keywords

ABUNDNACE

DATE

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Originating Center

EPA

Data Center

National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Data Center URL: http://www.epa.gov/kids/
Dataset ID: http://www.epa.gov/

Data Center Personnel
Name: UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY NSDI Email: nsdi at epamail.epa.gov Contact Address: 401 M. Street SW City: Washington, DC Postal Code: 20460 Country: USA