Topography LTER SECTOR

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Authors

Karen Baker, Terry Figel, Ray Smith

Visualization

Image is displayed using mapping packages in IDL (from RSI)

visualization done by Terry Figel @ ESRG, UCSB

Description

Data source is ETOP05 &/or (the world data base) with a spatial resolution of roughly 5' (5 nautical miles) with depths given in meters. Largest grid section includes oceanic regions surrounding the LTER site including the eastern Bellingshausen Sea, Drake Passage and the Antarctic Peninsual (55S to 70S latitude, 55W to 80W longitude). The LTER Grid is an area west of the Antarctic Peninsula and covers an area of 900 km (roughly parallel to the peninsual) by 200 km (on to off-shore). Within this grid, cardinal lines spaced every 100 km along the peninsula and cardinal points spaced every 20 km on to off-shore comprise the basic LTER sampling stations.