RV Investigator Voyage IN2016_E01 Underway UWY Data (Unprocessed)

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 IN2016_E01 Titled: "East Tasman Plateau – key to unravelling the onset of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, MNF Equipment Sea Trials". The voyage took place between the 17th to 22nd August, 2016 departing Hobart and returning to Hobart.

Standard Underway data is continuously recorded consisting of: (1) NAV: Navigation data: (dual GPS) Latitude, Longitude, Speed, Heading, course over ground, Gyros, and Doppler Log. (2) TSG: ThermoSalinoGraph: Water Salinity, flow-rate, Temperature, Fluorescence, and pCO2. (3) MET: Meteorological - Atmospheric (port and starboard): Humidity, Wind speed and direction (vane and ultrasonic), Radiometer, Pyranometer, PAR, IMOS sensors, Air temperature, Air pressure, Rain, Ozone and Trace gases.

Data are recorded at 5 second intervals. Near real-time data is available via the link below. This dataset will be processed and archived within the CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere Data Centre in Hobart. Data is available in 5sec intervals in NetCDF, 10 sec and 5 min intervals in ascii format. Additional information regarding this dataset is contained in the cruise report for this voyage and/or the data processing report.

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Title RV Investigator Voyage IN2016_E01 Underway UWY Data (Unprocessed)
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/e76f62cb-7222-4180-baa3-d44ef781bdf8
Contact Point
Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML)
data-requests-hf@csiro.au
Reference Period 17/08/2016 - 22/08/2016
Geospatial Coverage
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Data Portal Data.gov.au