CTD-derived water-column salinity, temperature and density data from South Georgia fjords collected during the late spring 2019

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This dataset contains Conductivity–Temperature–Depth (CTD) measurements collected in fjords of South Georgia during the SRV Saoirse expedition in November–December 2019. The dataset includes vertical profiles of seawater salinity, temperature and density obtained with a CTD48M memory probe (Sea & Sun Technology GmbH) at stations distributed across glacier-influenced fjord systems, including Cumberland Bay and adjacent coastal settings. The measurements document the hydrographic structure of sub-Antarctic fjords during the austral spring–summer transition, characterized by strong near-surface stratification driven by glacier meltwater input and by the interaction between locally modified fjord waters and Southern Ocean water masses. At each station, CTD casts provided measurements of water-column properties from the surface to near-bottom depth. The dataset includes sampling date, station coordinates, and vertical profiles of salinity, water temperature, and seawater density. The dataset has been used in studies addressing fjord hydrography, glacier retreat dynamics, sedimentary processes, and benthic protistan ecology. Parts of the dataset were presented and interpreted in Majewski et al. (2023) and subsequent related studies.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995495
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.954898
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-523-2023
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.995495
Provenance
Creator Majewski, Wojciech ORCID logo; Szczuciński, Witold ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2026
Funding Reference National Science Centre Poland https://doi.org/10.13039/501100004281 Crossref Funder ID 2018/31/B/ST10/02886 Response to environmental changes and post-industrial recovery of foraminifera from South Georgia fjords, sub-Antarctic
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 14898 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-36.980W, -54.366S, -36.375E, -54.071N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-11-26T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-12-05T00:00:00Z