Pelagic regionalisation approach in the wider Weddell Sea (Antarctica) with link to ArcGIS map package

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Here we provide an ArcGIS map package on the pelagic regionalisation in the wider Weddell Sea (Antarctica), which were created in the context of the development of a marine protected area (MPA) in the Weddell Sea. For the pelagic regionalisation following parameters were incorporated: (i) ice coverage from AMSR-E sea ice maps, (ii) bathymetric data from the International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean (IBCSO), and (iii) seawater temperature and salinity data from the Finite Element Sea Ice - Ocean Model (FESOM) provided by R. Timmermann (AWI). To classify different pelagic areas we have applied K-means clustering algorithm and 'clusGap' function from R package 'cluster'. Coastal polynyas mainly occurred east and west of the Prime Meridian (between 20°W to 30°E) as well as around the tip of Antarctic Peninsula, whereas the inner Weddell Sea was characterised by perennial ice-coverage. The largest area proportion of the wider Weddell Sea were classified by above average large water depths and relative high probabilities of ice-free days. More information on the spatial analysis is given in working paper WG-EMM-16/03 submitted to the CCAMLR Working Group on Ecosystem Monitoring and Management (available at https://www.ccamlr.org/en/wg-emm-16).

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.899595
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.805735
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.2307/2346830
Related Identifier https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=cluster
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1029/2005JC003384
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2008.10.009
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.899595
Provenance
Creator Pehlke, Hendrik ORCID logo; Teschke, Katharina ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2019
Funding Reference Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture https://doi.org/10.13039/501100005908 Crossref Funder ID 2813HS009 https://foerderportal.bund.de/foekat/jsp/SucheAction.do?actionMode=view&fkz=2813HS009 Development of a CCAMLR Marine Protected Area in the Antarctic Weddell Sea
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 15 data points
Discipline Biospheric Sciences; Ecology; Geosciences; Natural Sciences
Spatial Coverage (-90.000W, -80.000S, 30.000E, -60.000N)