BIOPOLE: Southern Ocean Glider Data on Nutrients and Carbon Cycle (2022-2025)

BIOPOLE glider deployments collected pressure, temperature, conductivity, salinity, optical backscatter, and chlorophyll data in the Southern Ocean from April 2022 to March 2025. The dataset, funded by the UK's Natural Environmental Research Council, includes near-real-time, recovery, and quality-controlled delayed mode versions. Data were collected by the British Antarctic Survey and National Oceanography Centre and are archived at the British Oceanography Data Centre.

Use Cases

• Modeling nutrient-driven carbon cycles in polar waters based on collected salinity and chlorophyll data.
• Analyzing primary productivity changes based on optical backscatter and chlorophyll measurements.
• Studying under-ice oceanographic conditions based on glider data from areas inaccessible to ships.

Strengths

• Data collection spans three years from April 2022 to March 2025.
• Includes multiple data processing levels: near-real-time, recovery, and quality-controlled delayed mode.
• Contains under-ice measurements from areas typically unreachable by traditional ships.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and National Oceanography Centre (NOC) under NERC Grant NE/W004933/1.

Collection Method

Data collected via ocean glider deployments.

Time Range

April 2022 to March 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 15:10:46.383774; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Southern Ocean