RV Investigator Voyage IN2016_V02 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 IN2016_V02 Titled: "SOTS: Southern Ocean Time Series automated moorings for climate and carbon cycle studies southwest of Tasmania". The voyage took place between the 14th March to 16th of April, 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: Atmospheric (port and starboard): Humidity, Wind speed and direction (vane and ultrasonic), Radiometer, Pyranometer, PAR, 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 "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. Data is available at time intervals of 5 sec (NetCDF format), 10 sec and 5 min (ASCII format). Additional information regarding this dataset is contained in the Cruise Summary Report and/or the Data Processing Report for this voyage.

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Title RV Investigator Voyage IN2016_V02 Underway UWY Data
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/9214a7ac-6ca8-4e17-943f-488505dc79a8
Contact Point
Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML)
data-requests-hf@csiro.au
Reference Period 13/03/2016 - 15/04/2016
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Data Portal Data.gov.au