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Updated on September 30, 2004
KERFIX site (Southern Ocean Indian Sector)
Between January 1990 and March 1995 the scientific program KERFIX has proposed the first continuous, multi-annual, non-coastal studies to measure parameters that are linked to the carbon cycle
in the Southern Ocean at a fixed time-series station in the South-West corner off Kerguelen Island (50°40'S - 68°25'E). The objectives of the program are:
1. Understanding the processes that govern the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between ocean and atmosphere;
2. Observing and interpreting seasonal and inter-annual variations of production and decay;
3. Carbon flux and associated elements at this particular site.
Moreover, micropaleontological studies yield a documentation of today's and past material flux dynamics at this site, which allows to refine our knowledge of certain oceanographic proxies.
To get an overview about the data available in the following section, please have a look at the map and the variable/parameter profiles (.pdf document).
In order to present properly the results Ocean Data View (Reiner Schlitzer, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research) has been applied.
Data are available as tab-delimited .txt files in ASCII format. If you have comments on that, please let me know (Nicolas Dittert, WDC-MARE).
All ORFOIS related data with respect to KERFIX are continuously updated.
Whenever you use data of the ORFOIS data compilation that refer to the KERFIX data collection, please quote the citations of the
following publications:
http://orfois.wdc-mare.org/KERFIX_References.php
Water column profiles
Graphical display of site map and water column data profile and variables/parameters (830 kB .pdf document) [show]
Analytical data (22,892 data points) of all data profiles in the water column (750 kB .txt document) [show]
Analytical data (20,501 data points) of the Oxygen [µmol/l] profiles in the water column (1,580 kB .txt document) [show]
Analytical data (501 data points) of the Phosphate [µmol/l] profiles in the water column (40 kB .txt document) [show]
Analytical data (706 data points) of the Silicate [µmol/l] profiles in the water column (60 kB .txt document) [show]
Analytical data (439 data points) of the Alkalinity [mEq/l] profiles in the water column (40 kB .txt document) [show]
Analytical data (745 data points) of the Nitrate [µmol/l] profiles in the water column (60 kB .txt document) [show]
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