Metadata details
201213_10_second_underway
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- Citation
- Commonwealth of Australia (2013) 2012-13 Season Voyage Track and Underway Data, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - doi:10.26179/brg3-0f65, Accessed: 2026-05-01
- Title
- 2012-13 Season Voyage Track and Underway Data
- Data Centre
- Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
- DOI
- doi:10.26179/brg3-0f65
- Created Date
- 2013-05-01
- Revision Date
- 2025-01-21
- Parent record
- underway_ship_data
Datasets and documents
Related links
Description
On every voyage of the Aurora Australis, approximately 50 onboard sensors collect data on average every 10 seconds. These data are known as the underway datasets. The type of data collected include water and air temperature, wind speeds, ship speed and location, humidity, fluorescence, salinity and so on. For the full list of available data types, see the website.
These data are broadcast "live" (every 30 minutes) back to Australia and are available via the Australian Oceanographic Data Centre's portal (see the provided link). Once the ship returns to port, the data are then transferred to Australian Antarctic Division servers where they are then made available via the Marine Science Data Search system (see the provided URL).
This dataset contains the track and underway data for all Australian Antarctic Division voyages carried out with the RSV Aurora Australia in the 2012-13 season, at 10 second resolution.
Underway (meteorological) data are available online via the Australian Antarctic Division Data Centre web page (or via the Related URL section).
Quality
This dataset contains raw data and has only had very crude minimum and maximum range valids applied. Please verify the data before use.
Access
Data are available online via the Australian Antarctic Division Data Centre web page, and also via the Australian Ocean Data Network Web Portal.
Temporal Coverages
- Start date: 2012-09-14 - Stop date: 2012-11-16
Spatial Coverages
Science Keywords
- EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE
- EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > SOLAR RADIATION
- EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND DYNAMICS > CONVECTION
- EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SEA LEVEL PRESSURE
- EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY
Additional Keywords
- MARINE
- METEOROLOGY
Locations
- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
- CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
Platforms
- R/V Aurora Australis
Instruments
- ECHO SOUNDERS
Researchers
- reeve, jono (INVESTIGATOR,TECHNICAL CONTACT)
- jordan, miles (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=201213_10_second_underway when using these data.
