Sea Mammals as an ocean observation component

Since 2004, several hundred seals have been equipped with conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) sensors in the Southern Ocean for both biological and physical oceanographic studies. A calibrated collection of seal-derived hydrographic data is now available from Coriolis, currently consisting of more than 300,000 temperature/salinity profiles. Delayed mode data, December 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.12770/0a82d60c-683d-47b8-8bd1-24933ec24983 on the Coriolis ftp server, in /ifremer/marine_mammals/. In a near future (summer 2015), seal data will be updated daily, and a monthly snapshot of the full database will be produced. through the Coriolis data selection tool (Sea mammal or Animal profiles).