Metadata details
199798040
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- Citation
- Commonwealth of Australia (1999) Aurora Australis Voyage 3 1997-98 Underway Data, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - doi:10.26179/b87z-vm96, Accessed: 2026-05-01
- Title
- Aurora Australis Voyage 4 (SEXY) 1997-98 Underway Data
- Data Centre
- Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
- DOI
- doi:10.26179/b87z-vm96
- Created Date
- 1999-10-07
- Revision Date
- 2025-01-31
- Parent record
- underway_ship_data
Datasets and documents
Related links
Description
This dataset contains the underway data from the Aurora Australis Voyage 4 (SEXY) 1997-98. This voyage was a part resupply/changeover, part seal survey cruise, which visited Casey, Davis, Mawson and Macquarie Island. Underway (meteorological, fluorometer, thermosalinograph and bathymetry) data are available online via the Australian Antarctic Division Data Centre web page (see URL given below). Documentation on data quality and instrumentation are available via the Related URL section.
The following scientific objectives for the voyage were listed in the Voyage Leader's Report:
1) Undertake the seal survey marine science program between Casey and Davis.
2) Transfer summer science personnel to Beaver Lake in support of the Prince Charles Mountain Program from Sansom Island.
Quality
See the Marine Science Support Data Quality and Programmer's Reports at 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 available online via the Australian Antarctic Division Data Centre web page.
Reports from the voyage are also available for download.
Temporal Coverages
- Start date: 1997-11-29 - Stop date: 1998-01-22
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
- MARINE
- METEOROLOGY
- OCEANOGRAPHY
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=199798040 when using these data.
