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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
Expected Date of Data Release
2013-05-01
Data Version
1
Parent record
underway_ship_data

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).

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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

Spatial Coverages

Science Keywords

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.

Project

    ISO Topic

    • CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE
    • OCEANS

    Dataset Language

    • English

    Orignating Centre

    • Australian Antarctic Division

    Dataset Progress

    • COMPLETE

    IDN Node

    • AMD
    • CEOS
    • AMD/AU

    Metadata Revision History

      2013-05-01 - record created by Miles Jordan. 2014-05-13 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates. 2014-08-29 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates. 2014-11-21 - record updated by Dave Connell to correct broken URLs. 2015-01-12 - record updated by Dave Connell to correct broken URLs. 2016-12-14 - record updated by Dave Connell to correct broken URLs. 2023-11-27 - record updated by Dave Connell to alter URL Content Types. 2024-02-08 - record updated by Dave Connell to alter the citation. 2024-02-21 - record updated by Dave Connell to add a DOI. 2025-01-21 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates.

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