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au9604

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Citation
Rintoul, S., Rosenberg, M. and Bindoff, N. (2008) Aurora Australis Southern Ocean oceanographic data, cruise au9604 - BROKE, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Division - doi:10.4225/15/54978B0D737F5, Accessed: 2026-06-24
Title
Aurora Australis Southern Ocean oceanographic data, cruise au9604 - BROKE
Data Centre
Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
DOI
doi:10.4225/15/54978B0D737F5
Created Date
1999-10-07
Revision Date
2017-04-26
Parent record
None

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    Description

    Oceanographic measurements were conducted along a series of meridional and zonal sections along the Antarctic continental shelf and slope region between 80 and 150 deg.E, from January to March 1996 during the BROKE cruise of the Aurora Australis. A total of 147 CTD vertical profile stations were taken, most to near bottom. Over 2450 Niskin bottle water samples were collected for the measurement of salinity, dissolved oxygen, nutrients (phosphate, nitrate+nitrite, silicate), chlorofluorocarbons, oxygen 18, primary productivity, and biological parameters, using a 24 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
    temperature (T-90)
    salinity
    sigma-T
    specific volume anomaly
    geopotential anomaly
    dissolved oxygen
    fluorescence
    photosynthetically active radiation

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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. These data are publicly available for download from the provided URL.

    Temporal Coverages

    Spatial Coverages

    Latitude

    Northernmost:
    -43.0
    Southernmost:
    -69.0

    Longitude

    Westernmost:
    76.0
    Easternmost:
    151.0

    Science Keywords

    Additional Keywords

    • BOTTOM DEPTH
    • BOTTOM POSITION
    • BOTTOM TIME
    • BROKE
    • CRUISE
    • DATE
    • DISSOLVED OXYGEN
    • FINISH POSITION
    • FINISH TIME
    • FLUORESCENCE
    • GEOPOTENTIAL ANOMALY
    • MAXIMUM PRESSURE
    • OCEANOGRAPHY
    • PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION
    • PRESSURE
    • SALINITY
    • SHIP
    • SIGMA-T
    • SPECIFIC VOLUME ANOMALY
    • START POSITION
    • START TIME
    • STATION NUMBER
    • TEMPERATURE (T-90)

    Locations

    • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
    • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

    Platforms

    • SHIPS
    • R/V Aurora Australis

    Instruments

    • Conductivity, Temperature, Depth

    Researchers

    • rintoul, steve (INVESTIGATOR)
    • rosenberg, mark (INVESTIGATOR,TECHNICAL CONTACT,DIF AUTHOR)
    • bindoff, nathaniel (INVESTIGATOR)

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    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=au9604 when using these data.

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