Southern Surveyor Voyage SS 06/2004 Underway Data

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Created 13/01/2025

Updated 13/01/2025

This dataset contains the Underway (UWY) data collected on Southern Surveyor voyage SS 06/2004. The voyage was between Numea and Sydney in the Coral Sea to swath-map the Coriolis Troughs (Vanuatu) and the Nifonea Ridge in the Vate Trough, and in the Tasman Sea in June 2004. This dataset has been processed and is archived within the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Data Centre in Hobart. Additional information regarding this dataset is contained in the voyage plan and voyage summary. The standard Underway (=continuously recorded) dataset from a research voyage includes Navigation (NAV), Sounder (PDR), Thermosalinograph (TSG) and Meteorological (MET) data. NAV data includes GPS (Global Positioning System) measurements of latitude, longitude, ship's direction and speed. MET data may include atmospheric temperature, humidity and pressure, wind speed and direction, and incident radiation intensity. The data are available at 10 second intervals in the NetCDF file, or at five minute intervals in the standard ASCII file.

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Title Southern Surveyor Voyage SS 06/2004 Underway Data
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/cea8bc20-4bbe-4a9c-8c8a-ae850cbb9f36
Contact Point
Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML)
data-requests-hf@csiro.au
Reference Period 02/06/2004 - 26/06/2004
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Data Portal Data.gov.au