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Rohardt, Gerd; Fahrbach, Eberhard; Beszczynska-Möller, Agnieszka; Boetius, Antje; Brunßen, Jutta; Budéus, Gereon; Cisewski, Boris; Engbrodt, Ralph; Gauger, Steffen; Geibert, Walter; Geprägs, Patrizia; Gerdes, Dieter; Gersonde, Rainer; Gordon, Arnold L; Hellmer, Hartmut H; Isla, Enrique; Jacobs, Stanley S; Janout, Markus A; Jokat, Wilfried; Klages, Michael; Kuhn, Gerhard; Meincke, Jens; Ober, Sven; Østerhus, Svein; Peterson, Ray G; Rabe, Benjamin; Rudels, Bert; Schauer, Ursula; Schröder, Michael; Sildam, Jüri; Soltwedel, Thomas; Stangeew, Elena; Stein, Manfred; Strass, Volker H; Thiede, Jörn; Tippenhauer, Sandra; Veth, Cornelis; von Appen, Wilken-Jon; Weirig, Marie-France; Wisotzki, Andreas; Wolf-Gladrow, Dieter A; Kanzow, Torsten (2016): Physical oceanography on board of POLARSTERN (1983-11-22 to 2016-02-14). Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.860066, Supplement to: Driemel, Amelie; Fahrbach, Eberhard; Rohardt, Gerd; Beszczynska-Möller, Agnieszka; Boetius, Antje; Budéus, Gereon; Cisewski, Boris; Engbrodt, Ralph; Gauger, Steffen; Geibert, Walter; Geprägs, Patrizia; Gerdes, Dieter; Gersonde, Rainer; Gordon, Arnold L; Grobe, Hannes; Hellmer, Hartmut H; Isla, Enrique; Jacobs, Stanley S; Janout, Markus A; Jokat, Wilfried; Klages, Michael; Kuhn, Gerhard; Meincke, Jens; Ober, Sven; Østerhus, Svein; Peterson, Ray G; Rabe, Benjamin; Rudels, Bert; Schauer, Ursula; Schumacher, Stefanie; Schröder, Michael; Sieger, Rainer; Sildam, Jüri; Soltwedel, Thomas; Stangeew, Elena; Stein, Manfred; Strass, Volker H; Thiede, Jörn; Tippenhauer, Sandra; Veth, Cornelis; von Appen, Wilken-Jon; Weirig, Marie-France; Wisotzki, Andreas; Wolf-Gladrow, Dieter A; Kanzow, Torsten (2017): From pole to pole: 33 years of physical oceanography onboard R/V Polarstern. Earth System Science Data, 9(1), 211-220, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-211-2017

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Abstract:
Measuring temperature and salinity profiles in the world's oceans is crucial to understanding ocean dynamics and its influence on the heat budget, the water cycle, the marine environment and on our climate. Since 1983 the German research vessel and icebreaker Polarstern has been the platform of numerous CTD (conductivity, temperature, depth instrument) deployments in the Arctic and the Antarctic. We report on a unique data collection spanning 33 years of polar CTD data. In total 131 data sets (1 data set per cruise leg) containing data from 10 063 CTD casts are now freely available. During this long period five CTD types with different characteristics and accuracies have been used. Therefore the instruments and processing procedures (sensor calibration, data validation, etc.) are described in detail. This compilation is special not only with regard to the quantity but also the quality of the data - the latter indicated for each data set using defined quality codes. The complete data collection includes a number of repeated sections for which the quality code can be used to investigate and evaluate long-term changes. Beginning with 2010, the salinity measurements presented here are of the highest quality possible in this field owing to the introduction of the OPTIMARE Precision Salinometer.
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#NameShort NameUnitPrincipal InvestigatorMethod/DeviceComment
1CampaignCampaignRohardt, Gerdcruise leg, ANT/ARK notation
2CampaignCampaignRohardt, Gerdcruise leg, PS notation
3Date/time startDate/time startRohardt, Gerdof cruise leg
4Date/time endDate/time endRohardt, Gerdof cruise leg
5Author(s)Author(s)Rohardt, Gerdof dataset
6Principal investigatorPIRohardt, Gerd
7Number of observationsNOBS#Rohardt, GerdCTD casts
8Method commentMethod commRohardt, GerdCTD type
9Ocean and sea regionOS regionRohardt, Gerd
10Persistent IdentifierPersistent IdentifierRohardt, Gerdlink to all CTD data of cruise leg (=link to parent)
11Quality codeQualityRohardt, Gerddata quality, A = highest, details see article
12Uniform resource locator/link to imageURL imageRohardt, Gerdlink to map
13Uniform resource locator/link to referenceURL refRohardt, Gerdlink to cruise report
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