Metadata details

au9006

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Citation
Rosenberg, M. (2002) Aurora Australis Southern Ocean oceanographic (CTD) data, cruise au9006 (AAMBER 2), Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - doi:10.4225/15/58afb50245d5c, Accessed: 2026-08-25
Title
Aurora Australis Southern Ocean oceanographic (CTD) data, cruise au9006 (AAMBER 2)
Data Centre
Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
DOI
doi:10.4225/15/58afb50245d5c
Created Date
1999-10-07
Revision Date
2017-04-26
Expected Date of Data Release
2002-04-26
Data Version
1
Parent record
None

Datasets and documents

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    Description

    Oceanographic measurements were conducted from Tasmania to Antarctica, and then primarily in the Prydz Bay region, from January 1991 to March 1991. A total of 159 CTD (conductivity, temperature and depth) vertical profile stations were taken, most to near bottom. Niskin bottle water samples were collected for the measurement of salinity, dissolved oxygen, nutrients (phosphate, nitrate+nitrite, silicate), chlorofluorocarbons, helium, tritium, dissolved inorganic carbon, alkalinity, carbon isotopes, dissolved organic carbon, dimethyl sulphide/dimethyl sulphoniopropionate, iodate/iodide, oxygen 18, primary productivity, and biological parameters, using a 24 bottle rosette sampler. Unfortunately, only salinity data from the bottle samples is available due to poor data quality of the nutrient and dissolved oxygen data. CTD salinity data have been calibrated against bottle samples, and are accurate to approximately 0.005 (PSS78). Measurement and data processing techniques are described, 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
    niskin bottle number

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    Quality

    See data report.

    Access

    Data stored as column formatted ascii data, and matlab format; data report is MS WORD 2000 document. The data are available for download from the provided URL.

    Temporal Coverages

    Spatial Coverages

    Latitude

    Northernmost:
    -50.0
    Southernmost:
    -69.0

    Longitude

    Westernmost:
    67.0
    Easternmost:
    138.0

    Science Keywords

    Additional Keywords

    • BOTTOM DEPTH
    • BOTTOM POSITION
    • BOTTOM TIME
    • CRUISE
    • DATE
    • DISSOLVED OXYGEN
    • FINISH POSITION
    • FINISH TIME
    • FLUORESCENCE
    • GEOPOTENTIAL ANOMALY
    • MAXIMUM POSITION
    • NISKIN BOTTLE NUMBER
    • 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
    • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
    • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

    Platforms

    • SHIPS
    • R/V Aurora Australis

    Instruments

    • Conductivity, Temperature, Depth
    • NISKIN BOTTLES

    Researchers

    • rosenberg, mark (INVESTIGATOR,TECHNICAL CONTACT,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=au9006 when using these data.

    Project

      ISO Topic

      • BIOTA
      • ELEVATION
      • GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION
      • OCEANS

      Dataset Language

      • English

      Orignating Centre

      • Australian Antarctic Division

      Dataset Progress

      • COMPLETE

      IDN Node

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

      Metadata Revision History

        1999-12-21 URL's, language, authors added. 2017-02-24 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates.

      Creative Commons License