Oceanographic profile temperature and salinity data using CTD, collected by the University of Colorado Boulder and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, RVI Nathaniel B. Palmer cruise NBP07-09, Bellinghausen Sea, 2007-09 to 2007-10 (NODC Accession 0120761)

Ocean pressure, temperature, and salinity data are reported from 85 CTD profiles acquired in the Bellingshausen Sea. These austral spring observations, taken along the continental shelf slope to a nominal depth of 500m (interspersed with a few full depth profiles), comprise a portion of several related data sets obtained during NBP07-09, from Punta Arenas to Punta Arenas, Chile. Additional sampling was undertaken for physical, geochemical and biological parameters of sea ice and upper ocean, as well as ocean currents and continuous underway mapping of sea surface properties, meteorological variables and bathymetry.