Marine Mammals Exploring the Oceans Pole to Pole

When diving animals help us to observe the oceans

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 2024

[ocean] Gao, L., Yuan, X., Cai, W., Guo, G., Yu, W., Shi, J., Qiao, F., Wei, Z. & Williams, G.D.; 2024; Persistent warm-eddy transport to Antarctic ice shelves driven by enhanced summer westerlies; Nature Communications; 15; 671; 10.1038/s41467-024-45010-x.

[ocean] Xu, Y., Zhang, W., Maksym, T., Ji, R., Li, Y. & Walker, C.; 2024; Influence of Physical Factors on Restratification of the Upper Water Column in Antarctic Coastal Polynyas; Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans; 12910.1029/2023jc020762.

[ocean] Xu Yilang, Zhang Weifeng (Gordon), Maksym Ted, Ji Rubao, Li Yun, Walker Catherine (2024). Influence of Physical Factors on Restratification of the Upper Water Column in Antarctic Coastal Polynyas. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129(3). https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JC020762