Quality Control Methods for CTD Data Collected by Using Instrumented Marine Mammals : A Review and Case Study

Seung-Tae Yoon; Won Young Lee

doi:10.4217/OPR.2021.43.4.321

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Quality Control Methods for CTD Data Collected by Using Instrumented Marine Mammals: A Review and Case Study 해양포유류 부착 CTD 관측 자료의 품질 관리 방법에 관한 고찰 및 사례 연구

30 December 2021. pp. 321-334

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Abstract

‘Marine mammals-based observations’ refers to data acquisition activities from marine mammals by instrumenting CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth) sensors on them for recording vertical profiles of ocean variables such as temperature and salinity during animal diving. It is a novel data collecting platform that significantly improves our abilities in observing extreme environments such as the Southern Ocean with low cost compared to the other conventional methods. Furthermore, the system continues to create valuable information until sensors are detached, expanding data coverage in both space and time. Owing to these practical advantages, the marine mammals-based observations become popular to investigate ocean circulation changes in the Southern Ocean. Although these merits may bring us more opportunities to understand ocean changes, the data should be carefully qualified before we interpret it incorporating shipboard/autonomous vehicles/moored CTD data. In particular, we need to pay more attention to salinity correction due to the usage of an unpumped-CTD sensor tagged on marine mammals. In this article, we introduce quality control methods for the marine mammals-based CTD profiles that have been developed in recent studies. In addition, we discuss strategies of quality control specifically for the seal-tagging CTD profiles, successfully having been obtained near Terra Nova Bay, Ross Sea, Antarctica since February 2021. It is the Korea Polar Research Institute’s research initiative of animal-borne instruments monitoring in the region. We anticipate that this initiative would facilitate collaborative efforts among Polar physical oceanographers and even marine mammal behavior researchers to understand better rapid changes in marine environments in the warming world.

Keywords

instrumented marine mammals

CTD data quality control

temperature

salinity

southern ocean

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Publisher :Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology
Publisher(Ko) :한국해양과학기술원
Journal Title :Ocean and Polar Research
Journal Title(Ko) :Ocean and Polar Research
Volume : 43
No :4
Pages :321-334
Received Date : 2021-09-08
Revised Date : 2021-10-25
Accepted Date : 2021-10-25
DOI :https://doi.org/10.4217/OPR.2021.43.4.321

Ocean and Polar Research ISSN:2234-7313(Online) Ocean and Polar Research

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