Bottom temperature record at Station BP in the Cosmonaut Sea, East Antarctica, from December 2004 to February 2016 (JARE-46 to JARE-57)

In the Cosmonaut Sea at 37deg 50min E, 66deg 51min S at an approximate depth of 4600 dbar, moored temperature observations were conducted by a thermometer attached to the frame system together with the bottom pressure gauge. Sea-Bird Scientific SBE37 were used almost continuously from 16 December 2004 to 14 February 2016. Continuous temperature records were retrieved with exceptions of two gaps of approximately ten months (February-December 2006) and seven days (February 2013). These data gaps were substituted with the less accurate data from the thermistor attached to the bottom pressure gauge (flagged). The temperature scale was given in ITS-90. Daily average is given.