Water Temperature and Pressure at 18 Meters Depth, Cape Armitage, Antarctica, 2000

SCIOPS collected water temperature and pressure data at 2-minute intervals throughout the year 2000 at a depth of 18 meters in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, using a moored SB-39 Seabird temperature logger. The dataset captures daily and yearly variations, with temperature precision reported as plus or minus about 0.005°C. Pressure data is included to allow for the calculation of tidal excursions over the same period.

Use Cases

• Modeling daily and seasonal temperature cycles in Antarctic coastal waters based on the high-frequency time-series data.
• Calculating tidal excursions and analyzing tidal patterns based on the concurrent pressure measurements.
• Calibrating or validating oceanographic models for McMurdo Sound using the precise, instrument-collected time-series.
• Studying the relationship between water temperature and tidal forces in a polar region.

Strengths

• High temporal resolution with data collected at 2-minute intervals.
• Reported temperature precision of plus or minus about 0.005°C.
• Concurrent collection of pressure data enables tidal analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the single Antarctic site.

Provenance

Source

SCIOPS

Collection Method

Data collected with a moored SB-39 Seabird temperature logger.

Time Range

2000

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

Cape Armitage, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica