RV Investigator Voyage IN2018_V01 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 IN2018_V01, titled: "Detecting Southern Ocean change from repeat hydrography, deep Argo and trace element biogeochemistry & CAPRICORN." The voyage took place between January 11 and February 21, 2018 departing from Hobart (TAS) and arriving in Hobart.

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 IN2018_V01 Underway UWY Data
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/bdf08bec-cc96-4dd1-9808-e426c8f4842a
Contact Point
Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML)
data-requests-hf@csiro.au
Reference Period 10/01/2018 - 21/02/2018
Geospatial Coverage
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Data Portal Data.gov.au