TY - JOUR
T1 - Sustained year-round oceanographic measurements from Rothera Research Station, Antarctica, 1997–2017
AU - Venables, Hugh
AU - Meredith, Michael P.
AU - Hendry, Katharine R.
AU - Ten hoopen, Petra
AU - Peat, Helen
AU - Chapman, Alice
AU - Beaumont, Jennifer
AU - Piper, Rayner
AU - Miller, Andrew J.
AU - Mann, Paul
AU - Rossetti, Helen
AU - Massey, Ali
AU - Souster, Terri
AU - Reeves, Simon
AU - Fenton, Mairi
AU - Heiser, Sabrina
AU - Pountney, Sam
AU - Reed, Sarah
AU - Waring, Zoë
AU - Clark, Marlon
AU - Bolton, Emma
AU - Mathews, Ryan
AU - London, Hollie
AU - Clement, Alice
AU - Stuart, Emma
AU - Reichardt, Aurelia
AU - Brandon, Mark
AU - Leng, Melanie
AU - Arrowsmith, Carol
AU - Annett, Amber
AU - Henley, Sian F.
AU - Clarke, Andrew
N1 - Funding information: The authors would like to thank all Rothera Research Station personnel who have supported the RaTS program since 1997. Data collection has been supported since 1997 by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) through core funding supplied to the British Antarctic Survey. Since 2017, it has been supported by NERC award “National Capability – Polar Expertise Supporting UK Research” (NE/R016038/1). Henley was supported by NERC through grant NE/K010034/1.
PY - 2023/5/10
Y1 - 2023/5/10
N2 - Oceanographic changes adjacent to Antarctica have global climatic and ecological impacts. However, this is the most challenging place in the world to obtain marine data due to its remoteness and inhospitable nature, especially in winter. Here, we present more than 2000 Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) profiles and associated water sample data collected with (almost uniquely) full year-round coverage from the British Antarctic Survey Rothera Research Station at the west Antarctic Peninsula. Sampling is conducted from a small boat or a sled, depending on the sea ice conditions. When conditions allow, sampling is twice weekly in summer and weekly in winter, with profiling to nominally 500 m and with discrete water samples taken at 15 m water depth. Daily observations are made of the sea ice conditions in the area. This paper presents the first 20 years of data collection, 1997-2017. This time series represents a unique and valuable resource for investigations of the high-latitude ocean’s role in climate change, ocean/ice interactions, and marine biogeochemistry and carbon drawdown.
AB - Oceanographic changes adjacent to Antarctica have global climatic and ecological impacts. However, this is the most challenging place in the world to obtain marine data due to its remoteness and inhospitable nature, especially in winter. Here, we present more than 2000 Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) profiles and associated water sample data collected with (almost uniquely) full year-round coverage from the British Antarctic Survey Rothera Research Station at the west Antarctic Peninsula. Sampling is conducted from a small boat or a sled, depending on the sea ice conditions. When conditions allow, sampling is twice weekly in summer and weekly in winter, with profiling to nominally 500 m and with discrete water samples taken at 15 m water depth. Daily observations are made of the sea ice conditions in the area. This paper presents the first 20 years of data collection, 1997-2017. This time series represents a unique and valuable resource for investigations of the high-latitude ocean’s role in climate change, ocean/ice interactions, and marine biogeochemistry and carbon drawdown.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85158825212
U2 - 10.1038/s41597-023-02172-5
DO - 10.1038/s41597-023-02172-5
M3 - Article
SN - 2052-4463
VL - 10
SP - 1
EP - 13
JO - Scientific data
JF - Scientific data
IS - 1
M1 - 265
ER -
