Over 800,000 vertical profiles of Temperature and Salinity have been collected since 2004 in the World Ocean by attaching tags on marine mammals, such as Southern elephant seals.
In this website, you will find information about the marine mammal tagging programs, and an access point to the publicly available databases.
Please let us know if you are using our data. You can contact us by mail to info@meop.net if you have any question.
The MEOP data portal
Content of the website
Amundsen Sea data and Northern Seas data released in the public domain
Tuesday, 10 April 2018
A new release of the MEOP-CTD database is available publicly (version MEOP-CTD_2018-04-10) that now includes :
- the deployment ct104 (M. Fedak, SMRU), obtained as part of the iSTAR A Programme (PI: K. Heywood, UEA)
- A large number of deployments on hooded seals and harbour seals carried outover the previous decade by researchers at the Norwegian Polar Institute (PI: Kit Kovacs and Christian Lydersen).
Note also that the list of publication has been updated with more than 10 publications in 2017 and already 5 publications in 2018.