Temperature, salinity, oxygen, PAR and other variables collected by the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer on the western Antarctic shelf for the GLOBEC project, April - September 2001 (NCEI Accession 0000792)

These data and reports from the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer were collected under the auspices of GLOBEC (Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics). GLOBEC was initiated by the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO in 1991, to understand how global change will affect the abundance, diversity and productivity of marine populations comprising a major component of oceanic ecosystems.
The aim of GLOBEC is to advance our understanding of the structure and functioning of the global ocean ecosystem, its major subsystems, and its response to physical forcing so that a capability can be developed to forecast the responses of the marine ecosystem to global change.