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4. 199900040

Description

This dataset contains the underway data collected during the Aurora Australis Voyage 4 1999-2000. This voyage visited Macquarie Island, Davis, Sansom Island and Mawson, as well as carrying out a ship and helicopter based seal survey. Underway (meteorological, fluorometer, thermosalinograph and bathymetric) data are available online via the Australian Antarctic Division Data Centre web page (or via the Related URL section). For further information, see the Voyage Leader's Report and the Marine Science Support Data Quality Report at the Related URL section.

The Voyage Leader's report lists the following scientific objectives:

- Undertake helicopter and ship-based seal survey utilising up to 24 days of ship time. Initial 24 days achieved before arrival at Davis, then an additional day between Davis and Mawson plus a further 2 days after Mawson making a total of 27 days devoted to Seal survey program.

- Retrieve current mooring meters. Despite several hours spent at each mooring site with countless traverses across each site with dredging equipment, no sign of the moorings was found.

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 Australian Antarctic Division Data Centre web page.

Reports from the voyage are also available for download

Temporal Coverages

• Start date: 1999-11-22 - Stop date: 2000-01-21

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 > WIND DYNAMICS > CONVECTION
• EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > SOLAR RADIATION
• EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION
• EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > WATER DEPTH
• EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > FLUORESCENCE
• EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE
• EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY
• EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE

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=199900040 when using these data.