Metadata details
199293090
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- Citation
- Commonwealth of Australia (1999) Aurora Australis Voyages 9 and 9.1 (WOES and WORSE) 1992-93 Underway Data, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - doi:10.26179/mmx7-eg62, Accessed: 2026-05-01
- Title
- Aurora Australis Voyages 9 and 9.1 (WOES and WORSE) 1992-93 Underway Data
- Data Centre
- Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
- DOI
- doi:10.26179/mmx7-eg62
- Created Date
- 1999-10-07
- Revision Date
- 2025-01-29
- Parent record
- underway_ship_data
Datasets and documents
Related links
Description
This dataset contains the underway data from Voyages 9 and 9.1 1992-93 (WOES and WORSE) of the Aurora Australis. These were dedicated marine science voyages. Meteorological, bathymetric, fluorometer and thermosalinograph data are available via the AADC web page (see Related URL section). The Marine Science Support Data Quality Report can also be accessed via the Related URL section.
CTD data were also obtained along the WOCE SR3 line.
From the voyage leader's report:
Voyage 9 was a purely marine science voyage on the "Aurora Australis" divided into four legs. The first was WOCE section SR3 along 138 degrees E from Hobart to as far into the ice as was feasible. The second leg was a hydroacoustic survey for Antarctic krill between 138 E and 155 E. The third leg was to be devoted to glaciological and marine biological research in the ice. The final leg was to be a further WOCE section from the ice northwards along 155 E.
Quality
Please see the Marine Science Support Data Quality Report via the Related URL section.
Where data for a particular sensor do not exist for a particular time, the last known value is used unless the sensor has been disabled or has encountered an error. For example, some sensors only record data every minute, but the resolution for the underway dataset is 10 seconds, so the same value will be used 6 times a minute. No averages are taken for sensors that capture data at a rate other than every 10 seconds. Instead, each record will be a snapshot of each sensor at that time.
Access
Data are available online via the AADC web page. A "supplementary" dataset is also available for download from the provided URL. It contains raw data collected directly from the ship, which has not been quality checked.
Reports from the voyage are also available for download.
Temporal Coverages
- Start date: 1993-03-11 - Stop date: 1993-05-10
Spatial Coverages
Science Keywords
- EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE
- EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY
- EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS
- EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > SOLAR RADIATION
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY
- EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE
Additional Keywords
- BATHYMETRY
- OCEANOGRAPHY
- MARINE
Locations
- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
Platforms
- R/V Aurora Australis
- SHIPS
Instruments
- ECHO SOUNDERS
Researchers
- reeve, jono (INVESTIGATOR,TECHNICAL CONTACT,DIF AUTHOR)
Use Constraints
This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=199293090 when using these data.
