Metadata details
200506030
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- Citation
- Commonwealth of Australia (2006) Aurora Australis Voyage 3 2005-2006 (BROKE-West) Underway Data, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - doi:10.26179/chfe-zc50, Accessed: 2026-05-01
- Title
- Aurora Australis Voyage 3 2005-2006 (BROKE-West) Underway Data
- Data Centre
- Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
- DOI
- doi:10.26179/chfe-zc50
- Created Date
- 2006-06-22
- Revision Date
- 2025-02-17
- Parent record
- underway_ship_data
Datasets and documents
Related links
Description
This dataset contains the underway data collected during the Aurora Australis Voyage 3 2005-06. This voyage began in Hobart, and went to Mawson and Davis and conducted marine science before returning to Hobart. Underway (meteorological) data are available online via the Australian Antarctic Division Data Centre web page (or via the Related URL section).
This voyage was also known as BROKE-West, and complements the BROKE-East voyage undertaken in the 1995/1996 season (voyage 4 - 199596040).
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.
Further information about aspects of the voyage are available for download at the URLs given below.
Temporal Coverages
- Start date: 2006-01-02 - Stop date: 2006-03-12
Spatial Coverages
Science Keywords
- EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SEA LEVEL PRESSURE
- EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE
- EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY
- EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND DYNAMICS > CONVECTION
- EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > SOLAR RADIATION
Additional Keywords
- MARINE
- METEOROLOGY
- BROKE-West
Locations
- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
- CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
Platforms
- SHIPS
- R/V Aurora Australis
Instruments
- ECHO SOUNDERS
Researchers
- wiley, peter (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=200506030 when using these data.
