Environmental data layers for a 5 year period before and after the calving of the Mertz Glacier Tongue

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

The dataset contains raster files (.grd) for food-availability and predicted distribution of suspension feeder abundances averaged across a five year time-period before (2005-2009) and after (2011-2016) the calving of the Mertz Glacier Tongue in 2010. The following data are included: - sinking, settling and horizontal flux of food-particles along the seafloor - suspension feeder abundances and standard deviation of the predicted distribution All data has been generated as part of the paper: Jansen et al. (2018) Mapping Antarctic suspension feeder abundances and seafloor-food availability, and modelling their change after a major glacier calving. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

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Title Environmental data layers for a 5 year period before and after the calving of the Mertz Glacier Tongue
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/e5d1e8ed-028d-48e9-a1ea-9d5ced37f03e
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
metadata@aad.gov.au
Reference Period 01/01/2005 - 31/12/2016
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        138.0,
        -67.5
      ],
      [
        147.0,
        -67.5
      ],
      [
        147.0,
        -65.0
      ],
      [
        138.0,
        -65.0
      ],
      [
        138.0,
        -67.5
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Environmental data layers for a 5 year period before and after the calving of the Mertz Glacier Tongue". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/environmental-data-layers-for-a-5-year-period-before-and-after-the-calving-of-the-mertz-glacier