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Citation
Commonwealth of Australia (1999) Aurora Australis Voyage 3 (MIRTH) 1994-95 Underway Data, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - doi:10.26179/f1hh-dp27, Accessed: 2026-05-01
Title
Aurora Australis Voyage 3 (MIRTH) 1994-95 Underway Data
Data Centre
Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
DOI
doi:10.26179/f1hh-dp27
Created Date
1999-10-07
Revision Date
2025-01-30
Parent record
underway_ship_data

Description

This dataset contains the underway data from Voyage 3 1994-95 (MIRTH) of the Aurora Australis. This was a resupply voyage, but was also used as a marine science training cruise. NoQalms data types were logged at 20-second intervals. The observations were taken in December 1994 en route from Hobart to Macquarie Island and back to Hobart. The Programmer's and Data Quality Reports are available via the Related URL section.

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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

Spatial Coverages

Science Keywords

Additional Keywords

  • BATHYMETRY
  • MARINE
  • OCEANOGRAPHY

Locations

  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
  • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Platforms

  • SHIPS
  • R/V Aurora Australis

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=199495030 when using these data.

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