Metadata details
199798070
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- Citation
- Commonwealth of Australia (1999) Aurora Australis Voyage 7 (PICCIES) 1997-98 Underway Data, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - doi:10.26179/xjss-ns07, Accessed: 2026-05-01
- Title
- Aurora Australis Voyage 7 (PICCIES) 1997-98 Underway Data
- Data Centre
- Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
- DOI
- doi:10.26179/xjss-ns07
- Created Date
- 1999-10-06
- Revision Date
- 2025-02-04
- Parent record
- underway_ship_data
Datasets and documents
Related links
Description
This dataset contains the underway data collected during voyage 7 of the Aurora Australis in 1997-98. This was a marine science cruise, which also visited Davis, Casey and Macquarie Island. The marine science component included a Subantarctic fish survey, a pelagic ecosysytem survey and polynya mooring deployments along 145 degrees East. Underway (meteorological, fluorometer, thermosalinograph and bathymetry) data are available online via the Australian Antarctic Division Data Centre web page (or via the Related URL section). See the Marine Science Support Data Quality and Programmer's Reports at the Related URL section.
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 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: 1998-04-03 - Stop date: 1998-05-22
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
- OCEANOGRAPHY
- MARINE
- METEOROLOGY
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=199798070 when using these data.
