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.
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Publications 2022
[bio] Allegue, H., Guinet, C., Patrick, S.C., Hindell, M.A., McMahon, C.R. & Reale, D.; 2022; Sex, body size, and boldness shape the seasonal foraging habitat selection in southern elephant seals; Ecology and Evolution; 12; e8457; 10.1002/ece3.8457.
[ocean] Aoki, S., Takahashi, T., Yamazaki, K., Hirano, D., Ono, K., Kusahara, K., Tamura, T. & Williams, G.D.; 2022; Warm surface waters increase Antarctic ice shelf melt and delay dense water formation; Communications Earth & Environment; 310.1038/s43247-022-00456-z.
[bio] Arce, F., Hindell, M.A., McMahon, C.R., Wotherspoon, S.J., Guinet, C., Harcourt, R.G. & Bestley, S.; 2022; Elephant seal foraging success is enhanced in Antarctic coastal polynyas; Proceedings of the Royal Society B; 289; 20212452; 10.1098/rspb.2021.2452.
[bio] Beltran, R.S., Hindell, M.A. & McMahon, C.R. (2022) The Elephant Seal: Linking Phenotypic Variation with Behavior and Fitness in a Sexually Dimorphic Phocid thology and Behavioral Ecology of Phocids . Ethology and Behavioral Ecology of Marine Mammals (eds D.P. Costa & E.A. McHuron), pp. 401-440. Springer.
[ocean] Cheng, L., von Schuckmann, K., Abraham, J.P., Trenberth, K.E., Mann, M.E., Zanna, L., England, M.H., Zika, J.D., Fasullo, J.T., Yu, Y., Pan, Y., Zhu, J., Newsom, E.R., Bronselaer, B. & Lin, X.; 2022; Past and future ocean warming; Nature Reviews Earth & Environment; 10.1038/s43017-022-00345-1.
[bio] Chua, M., Ho, S.Y.W., McMahon, C.R., Jonsen, I.D. & de Bruyn, M.; 2022; Movements of southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) from Davis Base, Antarctica: combining population genetics and tracking data; Polar Biology; 45; 1163-1174; 10.1007/s00300-022-03058-9.
[ocean] Herraiz-Borreguero, L. & Naveira Garabato, A.C.; 2022; Poleward shift of Circumpolar Deep Water threatens the East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Nature Climate Change; 12; 728-734; 10.1038/s41558-022-01424-3.
[bio] Hindell, M.A., McMahon, C.R., Guinet, C., Harcourt, R., Jonsen, I.D., Raymond, B. & Maschette, D.; 2022; Assessing the potential for resource competition between the Kerguelen Plateau fisheries and southern elephant seals; Frontiers in Marine Science; 910.3389/fmars.2022.1006120.
[ocean] Liu, C., Wang, Z., Liang, X., Li, X., Li, X., Cheng, C. & Qi, D.; 2022; Topography-mediated Transport of Warm Deep Water across the Continental Shelf Slope, East Antarctica; Journal of Physical Oceanography; 10.1175/jpo-d-22-0023.1.
[bio] McHuron, E.A., Adamczak, S., Arnould, J.P.Y., Ashe, E., Booth, C., Bowen, W.D., Christiansen, F., Chudzinska, M., Costa, D.P., Fahlman, A., Farmer, N.A., Fortune, S.M.E., Gallagher, C.A., Keen, K.A., Madsen, P.T., McMahon, C.R., Nabe-Nielsen, J., Noren, D.P., Noren, S.R., Pirotta, E., Rosen, D.A.S., Speakman, C.N., Villegas-Amtmann, S. & Williams, R.; 2022; Key questions in marine mammal bioenergetics; Conservation Physiology; 10; coac055; 10.1093/conphys/coac055.
[AniBOS] McMahon, C.R. & Roquet, F.; 2022; Animal-Borne Ocean Sensors: A Decadal Vision Through New Eyes; Marine Technology Society Journal; 56; 36-38; 10.4031/mtsj.56.3.2.
[ocean] Portela, E., Rintoul, S.R., Herraiz‐Borreguero, L., Roquet, F., Bestley, S., van Wijk, E., Tamura, T., McMahon, C.R., Guinet, C., Harcourt, R. & Hindell, M.A.; 2022; Controls on Dense Shelf Water formation in four East Antarctic polynyas; Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans; 10.1029/2022jc018804.
[ocean] Qin, Q., Wang, Z., Liu, C. & Cheng, C.; 2022; Open-Ocean Polynyas in the Cooperation Sea, Antarctica; Journal of Physical Oceanography; 52; 1363-1381; 10.1175/jpo-d-21-0197.1.
[ocean] Ramadhan, A., Marshall, J., Meneghello, G., Illari, L. & Speer, K.; 2022; Observations of Upwelling and Downwelling Around Antarctica Mediated by Sea Ice; Frontiers in Marine Science; 910.3389/fmars.2022.864808.
[ocean] Richter, O., Gwyther, D.E., Galton-Fenzi, B.K. & Naughten, K.A.; 2022; The Whole Antarctic Ocean Model (WAOM v1.0): development and evaluation; Geoscientific Model Development; 15; 617-647; 10.5194/gmd-15-617-2022.
[ocean] Sun, C., Liu, C., Wang, Z., Yan, L., Tao, Y., Qin, Q. & Qian, J.; 2022; On the influences of the continental shelf bathymetry correction in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica; Frontiers in Marine Science; 910.3389/fmars.2022.957414.
[ocean] Tian, T., Cheng, L., Wang, G., Abraham, J., Wei, W., Ren, S., Zhu, J., Song, J. & Leng, H.; 2022; Reconstructing ocean subsurface salinity at high resolution using a machine learning approach; Earth System Science Data; 14; 5037-5060; 10.5194/essd-14-5037-2022.
[ocean] Van Achter, G., Fichefet, T., Goosse, H., Pelletier, C., Sterlin, J., Huot, P.-V., Lemieux, J.-F., Fraser, A.D., Haubner, K. & Porter-Smith, R.; 2022; Modelling landfast sea ice and its influence on ocean–ice interactions in the area of the Totten Glacier, East Antarctica; Ocean Modelling; 16910.1016/j.ocemod.2021.101920.
[ocean] van Wijk, E.M., Rintoul, S.R., Wallace, L.O., Ribeiro, N. & Herraiz‐Borreguero, L.; 2022; Vulnerability of Denman Glacier to Ocean Heat Flux Revealed by Profiling Float Observations; Geophysical Research Letters; 4910.1029/2022gl100460.