RV Investigator Voyage IN2017_V05 Underway UWY Data

Created 12/10/2024

Updated 12/10/2024

This record describes the Underway (UWY) data collected from the Marine National Facility (MNF) RV Investigator Voyage IN2017_V05, titled: "Long-term recovery of trawled marine communities 25 years after the world’s largest adaptive management experiment." The voyage took place between October 11 and November 10, 2017 departing from Broome (WA) and arriving in Fremantle (WA).

Standard Underway data is continuously recorded, consisting of:

(1) Navigation data (NAV): Latitude, Longitude, Speed, Heading, Course Over Ground, Gyros, and Doppler Log (dual GPS instrument).

(2) Thermosalinograph (TSG): Water Salinity, Flow-Rate, Temperature, Fluorescence, pCO2, Optode temperature and Oxygen.

(3) Atmospheric (MET): Humidity, Wind Speed and Direction (vane and ultrasonic), Radiometer/Sea Surface Temperature, Pyranometer/Solar Radiation, Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR), Air Temperature, Air Pressure, Rain, Ozone and Trace Gases (port and starboard instruments).

Data are recorded at 5 second intervals. Near real-time data are available via the link "Visualisation tool for Underway Data." This dataset has been processed and archived within the CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere (O&A) Information and Data Centre (IDC) in Hobart (TAS). Data are available at time intervals of 5 sec (NetCDF format), 10 sec and 5 min (csv format). Additional information regarding this dataset is contained in the Voyage Summary and/or the Data Processing Report for this voyage.

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Title RV Investigator Voyage IN2017_V05 Underway UWY Data
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/20391046-f428-4b48-85e1-95a604e3f6d0
Contact Point
Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML)
data-requests-hf@csiro.au
Reference Period 11/10/2017 - 09/11/2017
Geospatial Coverage
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Data Portal Data.gov.au