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Description

This dataset contains the underway data collected during the Aurora Australis Voyage 4 2003-04 (HIPPIES - Heard Island Predator-Prey Investigation and Ecosystem Study). This voyage went to Heard Island, Zhong Shan and Davis, leaving from Freemantle and returning to Hobart. Underway (meteorological) data are available online via the Australian Antarctic Division Data Centre web page (or via the provided URLs).

Further information is available in the reports attached via the provided URL. The reports section contains the following documents:

Voyage Leader's Report
Gear Officer's Report
Dot Zapper's Report

Voyage Objectives:
- Support approved programs as reflected in the ASAC/Ops Database
- Deliver CHINAREA expeditioners to Zhong Shan
- Deliver expeditioners to Davis
- Retrieve expeditioners from Davis
- Retrieve 2 x AS350BA helicopters from Davis
- Retrieve CHINARE expeditioners from Zhong Shan
- Report any ship sightings (other than sightings of Southern Supporter or general shipping off the West Australian coast (during the voyage)

Approved scientific programs included:
- Integrated predator-prey study in the Heard Island vicinity and associated oceanographic data collection
- Use of a sediment grab to collect samples of bottom sediment on the Heard plateau
- Trialling and deployment of underwater video system on an opportunistic basis
- Collection of live Antarctic krill
- Seabird observations
- Towing of continuous plankton recorder on oceanic passages
- Continuous collection of data on incident light radiation

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: 2003-12-08 - Stop date: 2004-02-13

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 RADIATION > SOLAR RADIATION
• EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY
• EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND DYNAMICS > CONVECTION
• EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ARTHROPODS > CRUSTACEANS
• EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CETACEANS
• EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS > ALBATROSSES/PETRELS AND ALLIES
• EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS > WADERS/GULLS/AUKS AND ALLIES
• EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS > PENGUINS
• EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CETACEANS
• EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CARNIVORES

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=200304040 when using these data.