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au9501

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Citation
Rosenberg, M. (2001) Aurora Australis WOCE Southern Ocean oceanographic data, cruise au9501, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Division - doi:10.4225/15/5493B203ADEAE, Accessed: 2026-05-31
Title
Aurora Australis WOCE Southern Ocean oceanographic data, cruise au9501
Data Centre
Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
DOI
doi:10.4225/15/5493B203ADEAE
Created Date
1999-10-07
Revision Date
2018-10-01
Parent record
None

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    Description

    Oceanographic measurements were conducted along WOCE Southern Ocean meridional section SR3 between Tasmania and Antarctica, and around the boundary of a square-plan test volume south of the Antarctic Divergence, from July to September 1995 on voyage 1 of the 1995/1996 summer season. A total of 208 CTD vertical profile stations were taken, 64 of those to near bottom, and the remaining 144 to a depth of 500 m. Over 2300 Niskin bottle water samples were collected for the measurement of salinity, dissolved oxygen, nutrients (phosphate, nitrate+nitrite, silicate), dissolved organic and inorganic carbon, iodate/iodide, primary productivity, and biological parameters, using both a 24 and 12 bottle rosette sampler. Near surface current data were collected using a ship mounted ADCP. Measurement and data processing techniques are summarised, and a summary of the data are presented in graphical and tabular form.

    The fields in this dataset are:
    oceanography
    ship
    station number
    date
    start time
    bottom time
    finish time
    cruise
    start position
    bottom position
    finish position
    maximum position
    bottom depth
    pressure
    sigma-T
    temperature (C) (ITS-90)
    salinity (PSS78)
    density-1000 (kg.m-3)
    specific volume anomaly x 108
    geopotential anomaly
    dissolved oxygen (mmol.l-1)
    number of data points used in the 2 dbar averaging bin
    standard deviation of temperature values in the 2 dbar bin
    standard deviation of conductivity values in the 2 dbar bin
    fluorescence
    photosynthetically active radiation
    CTD pressure (dbar)
    CTD temperature (C) (ITS-90)
    reversing thermometer temperature (C)
    CTD conductivity (mS.cm-1)
    CTD salinity (PSS78)
    bottle salinity (PSS78)
    bottle quality flag (-1=rejected, 0=suspect, 1=good)
    niskin bottle number

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    Quality

    See data report.

    Access

    Data stored as column formatted ascii data, and matlab format; data report is a pdf document, which replaces an MS Word document. The data are available for download from the provided URL.

    Temporal Coverages

    Spatial Coverages

    Latitude

    Northernmost:
    -43.0
    Southernmost:
    -66.0

    Longitude

    Westernmost:
    137.0
    Easternmost:
    147.0

    Science Keywords

    Additional Keywords

    • BOTTLE QUALITY FLAG
    • BOTTLE SALINITY
    • BOTTOM DEPTH
    • BOTTOM POSITION
    • BOTTOM TIME
    • COMMENT
    • CRUISE
    • CTD CONDUCTIVITY
    • CTD PRESSURE
    • CTD SALINITY
    • CTD TEMPERATURE
    • DATE
    • DISSOLVED OXYGEN
    • ELEVATION ABOVE BOTTOM (M)
    • FINISH POSITION
    • FINISH TIME
    • FLAG
    • FLUORESCENCE
    • GEOPOTENTIAL ANOMALY
    • MAXIMUM PRESSURE
    • NISKIN BOTTLE NUMBER
    • NUMBER OF DATA POINTS USED IN THE 2 DBAR AVERAGING BIN
    • OCEANOGRAPHY
    • PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION
    • POINT NUMBER RANGE
    • PRESSURE
    • REVERSING THERMOMETER TEMPERATURE
    • SALINITY
    • SHIP
    • SIGMA-T
    • SPECIFIC VOLUME ANOMALY
    • STANDARD DEVIATION OF CONDUCTIVITY VALUES IN THE 2 DBAR BIN
    • STANDARD DEVIATION OF TEMPERATURE VALUES IN THE 2 DBAR BIN
    • START POSITION
    • START TIME
    • STATION
    • STATION NUMBER
    • TEMPERATURE (T-90)

    Locations

    • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
    • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

    Platforms

    • SHIPS
    • R/V Aurora Australis

    Instruments

    • Conductivity, Temperature, Depth
    • NISKIN BOTTLES
    • Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler

    Researchers

    • rosenberg, mark (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=au9501 when using these data.

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