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 (NODC 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.

本数据集及相关报告均采集自内森尼尔·B·帕尔默号研究船（R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer），相关工作依托全球海洋生态系统动力学计划（GLOBEC, Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics）开展。全球海洋生态系统动力学计划（GLOBEC）由国际海洋研究科学委员会（Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research, SCOR）与联合国教科文组织政府间海洋学委员会（Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, IOC of UNESCO）于1991年联合发起，旨在阐明全球变化对作为海洋生态系统核心组成部分的海洋种群的丰度、多样性及生产力的影响。该计划的核心目标是深化对全球海洋生态系统的结构、运行机制、主要子系统及其对物理强迫的响应的认知，进而建立预测海洋生态系统对全球变化响应的能力。