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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0345010
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Winter temperature and salinity profile measurements in the Southern Ocean using elephant seals as ocean sampling platforms. As a result of the paucity of winter data in the Southern Ocean, sophisticated ocean models such as the GFDL MOM are hampered in their ability to properly represent the complex processes in the Antarctic sea ice zone. Elephant seals forage in the Southern Ocean throughout winter, and traverse the water column between 0 and 800 metres many times each day, providing an opportunity to collect profiles of temperature and salinity. The resulting data will contribute to oceanographic studies of water mass formation and frontal variability, including comparisons with historical data and assimilation into a complex ocean model.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 01-2003
End Date: 06-2007
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $250,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Marine And Estuarine Ecology (Incl. Marine Ichthyology) | Climatology (Incl. Palaeoclimatology) | Oceanography | Physical Oceanography
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Climate variability | Oceanic processes (excl. climate related) | Other |
