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RV Investigator Voyage IN2016_V03 Gravity Data

Created 12/10/2024

Updated 12/10/2024

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This record describes gravity data collected on the RV Investigator voyage IN2016_V03, 'Monitoring Ocean Change and Variability along 170° W from the ice edge to the equator', which departed Hobart on the 26 April 2016 and returned to Lautoka, Fiji on the 30 June 2016. There was a port call at Wellington, New Zealand, 26 - 27 May for some science personnel change; this resulted in two "legs" of the voyage therefore Leg 1 is 26 April - 26 May 2016, and Leg 2 27 May - 30 June 2016.

The gravity meter instrument is a MicroG Lacoste Air-Sea II. Data are stored in .ENV and .DAT data files at CSIRO. There are 117 files totalling 397 MB of raw data in this dataset. S wharf tie was undertaken at Aetoa Quay in Wellington using a Scintrex Autograv CG-5. Wharf tie data can be found in Aetoa_Quay_New_Zealand 25 May 2016.TXT, which is stored with the raw data.

No processing has been conducted on this data.

Additional information regarding this dataset is contained in the GSM data acquisition and processing report.

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Title RV Investigator Voyage IN2016_V03 Gravity Data
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/ba7fb921-3099-43f6-b935-084ceffd117a
Contact Point
Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML)
data-requests-hf@csiro.au
Reference Period 27/10/2016
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