Global Change Master Directory gsfc-gcmduso@mail.nasa.gov 50 2013-05-18T10:27:33Z http://mddemo.gsfc.nasa.gov/KeywordSearch/OpenSearch.do 52 0 http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]AMT -40.0,-50.0,-4.0,50.0 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-05-03T04:00:00Z

The Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) is a multidisciplinary programme which undertakes biological, chemical and physical oceanographic research during an annual voyage between the UK and destinations ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GB-NERC-BAS-PDC-00514 2013-03-29T04:00:00Z

Ocean food webs modify the efficiency with which CO2 is absorbed from the atmosphere into the sea, fixed by phytoplankton in the surface layers and then transported to the ocean interior. This so-called ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]org.polarresearch-598 -37.0,-74.0,52.0,-42.0-43.0,58.0,22.0,88.5-43.0,58.0,22.0,88.5 2007-07-20T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2013-01-14T05:00:00Z

Marine Mammals Exploring the Oceans Pole to Pole (MEOP) will deploy state-of-the-art animal-borne CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth) tags on strategically chosen, deep-diving marine mammal species ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]LDEO_CapeAdareMoorings 172.383,-71.417,172.383,-71.417 2007-02-05T00:00:00Z 2011-01-22T00:00:00Z 2012-11-29T05:00:00Z

This data set contains moored temperature, salinity, and velocity records from a two oceanographic moorings recovered off Cape Adare, spanning the period February 2007 to January 2011. The records ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]K132_2010_2012_NZ_1 166.446,-77.7025,166.446,-77.7025163.30923,-75.31655,163.30923,-75.31655 2010-10-24T00:00:00Z 2012-01-26T00:00:00Z 2012-06-18T04:00:00Z

?Ocean spice? refers to one of the great hidden mechanisms driving ocean missing. Large regions of the oceans are layered in such a way that differences in molecular characteristics between heat and ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSF-ANT10-43669 70.0,-70.0,80.0,-64.0 2011-08-01T00:00:00Z 2014-07-31T00:00:00Z 2012-05-18T04:00:00Z

Processess governing the formation of Antarctic bottom water (AABW) in the Indian Ocean sector of the Southern Ocean remain poorly described. As with AABW formation in more well studied regions of ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]ASAC_2256_Oceanography 141.5,-55.0,141.5,-42.0 1997-09-01T00:00:00Z 1998-03-31T00:00:00Z 2012-03-20T04:00:00Z

The circumpolar Subantarctic Zone (SAZ) is a globally significant region of water mass formation and carbon dioxide uptake from the atmosphere. Here we synthesise the results of nine voyages over ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]ASAC_1156_Phytoplankton 142.0,-54.0,142.0,-47.0 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z 1998-03-31T00:00:00Z 2012-03-09T05:00:00Z

Papers arising from phytoplankton experiments associated with the SAZ (Subantarctic Zone) project. This work was complete as part of ASAC (AAS) project 1156. Taken from the abstracts of the referenced ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]ASAC_2960 -180.0,-66.0,180.0,-54.0 2007-09-30T00:00:00Z 2010-03-31T00:00:00Z 2012-03-02T05:00:00Z

Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 2960 See the link below for public details on this project Public The ocean's thermohaline circulation (THC) plays a fundamental role in global climate, ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]USGS-DDS-74 -71.0,42.0,-70.5,42.5 1989-12-01T00:00:00Z 2002-12-01T00:00:00Z 2011-07-01T04:00:00Z

Long-term oceanographic observations have been made at two locations in western Massachusetts Bay: (1) Site A (42? 22.6' N, 70? 47.0' W, 33 m water depth) from from 1989 to 2002, and (2) Site B (42? ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]AnSlope_CTD-LADCP 143.0,-75.0,-171.0,-46.0 2003-02-25T00:00:00Z 2003-04-02T00:00:00Z 2004-02-23T00:00:00Z 2004-04-02T00:00:00Z 2004-10-13T00:00:00Z 2004-11-30T00:00:00Z 2011-04-21T04:00:00Z

This data set comprises CTD and Lowered Acoustic Doppler Profiler (LADCP) data from 3 cruises of the AnSlope program (Cross-Slope Exchanges at the Antarctic Slope Front). A complete description ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]ASAC_2070 140.0,-67.0,150.0,-42.0 1996-08-22T00:00:00Z 1996-09-25T00:00:00Z 1998-04-04T00:00:00Z 1998-05-23T00:00:00Z 2010-03-19T04:00:00Z

Excel file containing haul position, depth, time etc and numbers and weight of species caught. Fieldwork was undertaken on Voyage 7 of 1997/98 season (April/May 1998) aboard Aurora Australis. The ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSF-ANT07-41510 165.0,-79.0,-100.0,-69.0 2007-09-15T00:00:00Z 2008-08-31T00:00:00Z 2010-02-23T05:00:00Z

The project goal is to investigate the ocean-atmosphere-ice (OAI) interactions in the Amundsen and Ross Seas during the austral summer of 2007-08 using hydrographic measurements (CTD and XBT) in conjunction ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]NSF-ANT02-30284 -40.0,-70.0,120.0,-35.0 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-12-31T00:00:00Z 2010-02-23T05:00:00Z

This work is the continuation of a joint project with the Polar Research Institute of China to make measurements of the structure of the upper ocean in the northern Weddell Sea along the route taken ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]K007_1976_1978_NZ_1 167.4,-78.1333,167.4,-78.1333168.6667,-82.3667,168.6667,-82.3667166.75,-77.85,166.75,-77.85 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z 1977-12-23T00:00:00Z 1977-12-30T00:00:00Z 2009-06-22T04:00:00Z

The water under the Ross Ice Shelf was investigated over two seasons through a hole drilled in the ice. In the first season, an ice hole near White Island was used to access the water under the ice ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]st2mooring_gb -67.6265,40.9558,-67.6265,40.9558 1995-02-02T00:00:00Z 1995-08-03T00:00:00Z 2009-06-11T04:00:00Z

In support of a Georges Bank Stratification Study, an array of instruments (ST2) was deployed and moored at 40 57.35N 67 37.59W in 69 meters of water. The mooring ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]K053_1993_1994_NZ_4 -110.6667,-75.3667,-110.6667,-75.3667-126.9,-77.166664,-126.9,-77.166664-126.1,-77.03333,-126.1,-77.03333-125.8,-76.666664,-125.8,-76.666664-125.8,-76.48333,-125.8,-76.48333-124.416664,-76.05,-124.416664,-76.05 1993-11-19T00:00:00Z 1993-12-05T00:00:00Z 2009-06-06T04:00:00Z

The internal wave structure under the shore fast ice of McMurdo Sound was surveyed. An internal wave is a wave propagating along a density stratification in the water mass. The discontinuity in density ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]dye_bh_GB -67.5,41.0,-66.8,42.0 1999-05-20T00:00:00Z 1999-06-07T00:00:00Z 2009-05-13T04:00:00Z

Two cruises were undertaken in May and June 1999 in which dye patches were released to study cross-frontal exchange. On Oceanus Cruise 342, led by Bob Houghton of Lamont-Doherty ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]crest_GB -67.542,41.407,-67.542,41.407 1994-10-28T00:00:00Z 1995-01-21T00:00:00Z 1995-04-02T00:00:00Z 1995-09-02T00:00:00Z 2009-05-13T04:00:00Z

The Georges Bank moored instrument array (CREST) was moored at ~41.4077N, 67.5423W in ~43 meters of water. The mooring consisted of an air temperature sensor at 3m above the ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]CalCOFI_IEH -124.9,32.02,-113.61,42.51 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

The California Oceanic Cooperative Fisheries Investigation (CalCOFI) is a unique partnership of the California Department of Fish and Game, the NOAA Fisheries Service and the Scripps Institution ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]ASAC_2535 -180.0,-70.0,180.0,-50.0 2004-10-07T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2009-04-20T04:00:00Z

Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 2535 See the link below for public details on this project. Project 2535 'Variability and stability of Antarctic Bottom Water ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]SPG-BWZ-NPB0606 -64.9884,-63.9753,-52.8742,-54.8127 2006-07-03T00:00:00Z 2006-08-15T00:00:00Z 2009-02-10T05:00:00Z

NSF-ANT-04-44134_Cruise_NPB0606 This project was funded by NSF Office of Polar Programs and includes colllaboration with projects separately funded by NASA Oceanbiogeochemistry Program, NOAA Antarctic ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[CANADA-CGDI]DFO_BIO_NB_LS_ATLAS -70.0,30.0,-15.0,70.0 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 1995-12-31T00:00:00Z 2008-09-17T04:00:00Z

The Computer Atlas of the Newfoundland Basin and Labrador Sea was designed to make simple, fast and reliable access to large volumes of historical and real time oceanographic data. The ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]URI_RAFOS_Floats -75.0,30.0,-45.0,45.0 1984-01-17T00:00:00Z 1990-03-26T00:00:00Z 2008-07-03T04:00:00Z

RAFOS floats are neutrally buoyant isopycnal drifters, which are tracked acoustically by ranging to as many as five sound sources that were moored at the depth of the permanent sound ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]AMISOR_ship 70.0,-70.0,76.0,-68.0 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z 2002-03-08T00:00:00Z 2008-04-10T04:00:00Z

Oceanographic measurements were conducted in the vicinity of the Amery Ice Shelf on two cruises, during the southern summers of 2000/2001 and 2001/2002. A CTD transect parallel to the front of the ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]au0403 60.0,-69.0,150.0,-32.0 2004-12-23T00:00:00Z 2005-02-17T00:00:00Z 2003-02-15T00:00:00Z 2005-01-23T00:00:00Z 2008-04-10T04:00:00Z

Oceanographic measurements were conducted in the Southern Ocean Indian sector during the southern summer of 2004/2005 on Aurora Australis voyage au0403, V3 2004/2005. Data were collected during a ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]au0304 60.0,-69.0,150.0,-42.0 2003-01-03T00:00:00Z 2003-03-17T00:00:00Z 2008-04-10T04:00:00Z

Oceanographic measurements were conducted in the South Indian Ocean sector during the southern summer of 2002/2003 on Aurora Australis voyage au0304, V4 2002/2003. A total of 64 vertical CTD stations ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]POLYNYA_ship 142.0,-67.5,148.0,-64.5 1998-04-03T00:00:00Z 2000-03-20T00:00:00Z 2008-04-10T04:00:00Z

Oceanographic measurements were conducted in the vicinity of the Mertz Polynya, encompassing 2 consecutive seasonal cycles from 1998 to 2000. In the southern winter of 1999, a total of 92 CTD/LADCP ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[AADC]ASAC_1058 70.0,-69.6,76.0,-68.4 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z 2001-03-09T00:00:00Z 2008-04-10T04:00:00Z

---- Public Summary from Project ---- Floating ice shelves interact with the oceans. They drive a vertical overturning circulation, causing relatively warmer water to be transported into the shelf ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GLOBEC_020_UK_002 -100.0,-60.0,20.0,67.0 2007-11-14T05:00:00Z

MARINE PRODUCTIVITY: physical controls on ecosystem dynamics The aim of the Marine Productivity programme is to develop coupled modelling and observational systems for the pelagic ecosystem, with ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]vandeFlierdt_0548918 2007-06-10T04:00:00Z

Combined Nd and Hf isotope analyses have become widely used in studies of solid Earth geochemistry, but their application to the low-temperature environment is still limited (for recent reviews see ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]UWASH_OCEAN_PALACE_DRIFTER 127.0,34.0,142.0,50.0-77.0,18.0,-20.0,47.0 1997-07-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 1999-05-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2007-01-31T05:00:00Z

This dataset is composed of drifter trajectories, and temperature and salinity profiles for the North Atlantic Ocean and the Sea of Japan. For the North Atlantic Ocean, 75 Profiling Autonomous Lagrangian ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]CNDA-ESP_ANT96-1001-HE046 -75.0,-68.0,-55.0,-55.0 1997-12-01T00:00:00Z 1998-01-05T00:00:00Z 2006-10-16T04:00:00Z

In English: Multichannel and single channel seismic reflection, high resolution seismic, sononbuoys, multibeam soundings, gravimetric and magnetic profiles were made. The object of the investigation ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]KPDC-MD-2006-002 -66.0,-69.0,-44.0,-59.0 2006-08-29T04:00:00Z

This dataset includes CTD measurements of open water and fjords of Antarctic Peninsula during the KARP (Korea Antarctic Research Program) cruise from 1998 to 2006. Data obtained are water temperature, ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]CNDA-ESP_REN2000-1992-E 2001-02-23T00:00:00Z 2001-04-12T00:00:00Z 2006-02-22T05:00:00Z

In English: The data and sample collection in this campaign were: -Recovering of 30 piston cores to different latitudes. The length of these cores, depending on the lithological characteristics, ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]LEGO01 140.0,-67.0,150.0,-43.0 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2005-09-02T04:00:00Z

ENGLISH Cruises SURVOSTRAL (SURVeillance of the Ocean auSTRAL): temperature and salinity data since 1992 in the ocean austral. SURVOSTRAL is the study of the Ocean Austral between Tasmania and ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]BTN-Ve_SW16 158.0,-74.8,166.0,-72.5 1990-11-01T00:00:00Z 2005-02-15T00:00:00Z 2005-06-28T04:00:00Z

Seawater sampling using Teflon-coated go-flo bottles (20 L) with kevlar hydrowire. Analyses of trace elements in seawater were performed using Inductively Coupled Plasma Sector Field Mass Spectrometry ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]SW16 157.68,-78.1,176.98,-68.6 2001-01-15T00:00:00Z 2003-02-15T00:00:00Z 2005-06-28T04:00:00Z

Seawater sampling using teflon-coated go-flo bottles (20 L) with kevlar hydrowire. Analyses of trace elements in seawater were performed using Inductively Coupled Plasma Sector Field Mass Spectrometry ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GLOBEC_011_VIBES_001 16.0,-35.0,55.0,40.0 2005-06-02T04:00:00Z

The PLUME Model: a 3D Numerical Model of the Southern Benguela The PLUME model aims to simulate the dynamics of the environment within the southern Benguela, with a particular emphasis on meso-scale ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]CNDA-ESP_ANT95-1718-E -58.0,-62.0,-41.0,-54.0 1998-01-13T00:00:00Z 1998-02-18T00:00:00Z 2005-05-17T04:00:00Z

In English: R/V Hesperides occupied the World Ocean Circulation Experiment SR1b repeat section across the Scotia Sea in February 1995, February 1996, and February 1998. On each cruise the same set ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]GLOBEC_038_CHL_002 -77.16,-56.79,-64.9,-15.72 2005-04-19T04:00:00Z

Assessment of inter-annual and seasonal variability of the circulation over the shelf and slope off central Chile and the development of simple models of free and wind-forced trapped waves Hydrographic ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]CNDA-ESP_BRANDSFIELD -64.0,-64.0,-60.0,-58.0 2003-11-01T00:00:00Z 2003-12-31T00:00:00Z 2005-01-12T05:00:00Z

En Espanol: La investigacion de las masas de agua y corrientes se ha desarrollado mientras el barco Las Palmas cruzaba el estrecho de Drake entre Ushuaia y las Shetland del Sur y en el mar de Brandsfield, ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]Global_Argo_Data_Repository -180.0,-80.0,180.0,90.0 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z T00:00:00Z 2004-10-25T04:00:00Z

Argo is an internationally coordinated project that plans to deploy a global array of approximately 3000 sub-surface profiling floats in the period 2000-2006. The objectives of Argo are: (1) to provide ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]CNDA-ESP_ANT94-0554-HE022-32 -58.0,-62.0,-57.0,-62.0-58.0,-60.0,-54.0,-55.0 1995-02-10T00:00:00Z 1995-02-26T00:00:00Z 1996-02-14T00:00:00Z 1996-02-27T00:00:00Z 2003-11-06T05:00:00Z

In English: WOCE SR1b radial (Burdwoodd Bank - Elephant Island), with support of the Bio Hesperides. 42 hydrographic stations were sampled across the Scotia Sea during the first cruise leg. The ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]CNDA-ESP_ANT96-0866-HE047 -70.0,-64.0,-40.0,-55.0 1998-01-10T00:00:00Z 1998-02-20T00:00:00Z 2003-09-24T04:00:00Z

In English: Spanish contribution to the DOVETAIL international project. The objectives of this campaign were: -Physiochemical characteristics of Weddell Sea waters acting as a source for the Weddell-Scotia ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]CNDA-ESP_DRAKE_META_HE080 -66.0,-64.0,-59.0,-55.0 2002-02-19T00:00:00Z 2002-03-02T00:00:00Z 2003-09-24T04:00:00Z

In English: The present file contains information on the project 'Study of the circulation and bathymetry of the surroundings of the circumpolar current', carried out on board of the Spanish Oceanographic ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]CNDA-ESP_BIOANTART-93-HE009 -63.0,-64.0,-56.0,-61.0 1993-01-19T00:00:00Z 1993-02-24T00:00:00Z 2003-09-22T04:00:00Z

In English: The objectives of the campaign has been: -Characterisation of the different water masses in the Bransfield Strait. -Study of the distribution and variability of these water masses based ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]CNDA-ESP_ANT97-1155-HE52 -70.0,-66.0,-50.0,-54.0 1998-12-06T00:00:00Z 1999-01-04T00:00:00Z 2003-09-22T04:00:00Z

In English Oceanographic parameters were acquired and preprocessed with special interest in the transects J-1 (Weddell Sea), H-G (Drake Passage), and E-C (Weddell Sea); the first and last complement ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]CNDA-ESP_ANT93-0997-HE001 -63.0,-65.0,-55.0,-62.0 1991-12-01T00:00:00Z 1991-12-31T00:00:00Z 2003-09-22T04:00:00Z

In English: The objectives of this campaign were: - Study of the distribution of oxygen, temperature and salinity. - Determination of nutrient concentration. - Study of phytoplankton productivity. ...

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/getdif.htm?[GCMD]CNDA-ESP_ANT99-1216-HE071 -62.0,-64.0,-57.0,-62.0 2001-01-19T00:00:00Z 2001-02-01T00:00:00Z 2003-09-22T04:00:00Z

In English: The campaign objective was to capture ice fishes (Fam. Channichthyidae) larva to determine: - The different isoforms of nitric oxide syntases, at proteines and RNAm, as molecular markers ...