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SIPEX_ASPECT

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Citation
Commonwealth of Australia (2017) ASPeCt Sea Ice Data from the SIPEX Voyage of the Aurora Australis in 2007-2008, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - doi:10.4225/15/59a8bd4b05d10, Accessed: 2026-06-14
Title
ASPeCt Sea Ice Data from the SIPEX Voyage of the Aurora Australis in 2007-2008
Data Centre
Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
DOI
doi:10.4225/15/59a8bd4b05d10
Created Date
2012-10-02
Revision Date
2025-10-30
Expected Date of Data Release
2017-09-01
Data Version
1
Parent record
ASAC_2767

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    Description

    ASPeCt is an expert group on multi-disciplinary Antarctic sea ice zone research within the SCAR Physical Sciences program. Established in 1996, ASPeCt has the key objective of improving our understanding of the Antarctic sea ice zone through focussed and ongoing field programs, remote sensing and numerical modelling. The program is designed to complement, and contribute to, other international science programs in Antarctica as well as existing and proposed research programs within national Antarctic programs. ASPeCt also includes a component of data rescue of valuable historical sea ice zone information.

    The overall aim of ASPeCt is to understand and model the role of Antarctic sea ice in the coupled atmosphere-ice-ocean system. This requires an understanding of key processes, and the determination of physical, chemical, and biological properties of the sea ice zone. These are addressed by objectives which are:

    1) To establish the distribution of the basic physical properties of sea ice that are important to air-sea interaction and to biological processes within the Antarctic sea-ice zone (ice and snow cover thickness distributions; structural, chemical and thermal properties of the snow and ice; upper ocean hydrography; floe size and lead distribution). These data are required to derive forcing and validation fields for climate models and to determine factors controlling the biology and ecology of the sea ice-associated biota.

    2) To understand the key sea-ice zone processes necessary for improved parameterization of these processes in coupled models.

    These ASPeCt measurements were taken onboard the Aurora Australis during the SIPEX voyage in the 2007-2008 summer season.

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    Access

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

    Temporal Coverages

    Spatial Coverages

    Latitude

    Northernmost:
    -61.9
    Southernmost:
    -65.6

    Longitude

    Westernmost:
    116.43
    Easternmost:
    129.133

    Science Keywords

    Additional Keywords

    • SIPEX
    • ASPeCt

    Locations

    • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
    • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
    • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA

    Platforms

    • R/V Aurora Australis
    • SHIPS

    Instruments

    • VISUAL OBSERVATIONS

    Researchers

    • commonwealth of australia (INVESTIGATOR,TECHNICAL CONTACT)
    • connell, dave (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=SIPEX_ASPECT when using these data.

    Project

      ISO Topic

      • OCEANS

      Dataset Language

      • English

      Orignating Centre

      • Australian Antarctic Division

      Dataset Progress

      • COMPLETE

      IDN Node

      • AMD
      • AMD/AU
      • CEOS
      • ACE/CRC

      Metadata Revision History

        2012-10-02 - record created by Dave Connell after data were forwarded onto Miles Jordan by Petra Heil. 2012-10-09 - record updated by Dave Connell. 2017-09-01 - record updated by Dave Connell to publicly release the data. 2025-01-15 - record updated by Dave Connell after a corrected project URL was provided by Lewis Rockliffe. 2025-10-30 - record citation updated.

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