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
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MEOP Databases
To download the public data, you have to fill in a simple form, asking for your name, email, who you are and what you plan to do with the data. You will then access a page with the links to the data. The MEOP-CTD, MEOP-SMS and MEOP-TDR databases can be accessed a zip file or through a read-only Dropbox folder.
The MEOP data portal distributes currently three different databases:
• the MEOP-CTD database: quality-controlled CTD profiles
• the MEOP-SMS database: submesoscale-resolving high density CTD data
• the MEOP-TDR database: high spatial density temperature/light data