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Prydz Bay Current Meter Data 1987-1988
This dataset contains current meter data from Prydz Bay, Antarctica. Current meters were deployed on 5 moorings around Prydz Bay between March 1987 and February 1988. Summary results and deployment details are in the documentation. Temperature and salinity were also recorded. Records are not continuous at each site over this time period. Mooring 1 had a single current meter with a target depth of 100-200m, mooring 2 had 2 Aanderaa current meters with deployment depths of 223m and 425m and an S4 current vector-averaging meter at 123m from the surface, mooring 3 had 2 Aanderaa current meters at target depths of 300m and 1500m, Mooring 4 had 4 Aanderaa current meters with depths of 182m, 328m, 430m and 512m, mooring 5 had 4 Aanderaa meters at 273m, 419m, 567m and 670m. Three moorings were deployed for a full year, March 1987 to February 1988 (the 'winter' deployment) and 2 moorings released in October 1987 for about 4 months ('summer' deployment). Six of the 12 current meters deployed were recovered.
The fields in this dataset are:
DEVICE IDENTIFICATION
SAMPLE PERIOD
TEMPERATURE PARAMETERS
CONDUCTIVITY PARAMETERS
SEA CURRENT DIRECTION PARAMETERS
SEA CURRENT SPEED PARAMETERS
DATE
TIME
TEMPERATURE (DEGREES C)
SALINITY (Ppt)
DIRECTION (degrees)
SPEED (knots)
Simple
Identification info
- Alternate title
- Prydz Bay Current Meter Data 1987-1988
- Date (Publication)
- 1999-10-07
- Edition
- 1
Originator
Publisher
Principal investigator
Collaborator
- Name
- CAASM Metadata
- Status
- Completed
Custodian
- Topic category
-
- Oceans
Extent
))
Extent
- Description
- Temporal Coverage
Temporal extent
- TimePeriod
- 1987-03-01 1988-02-21
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
-
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CIRCULATION > OCEAN CURRENTS
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY
- Keywords
-
- CONDUCTIVITY PARAMETERS
- DATE
- DEVICE IDENTIFICATION
- DIRECTION
- SALINITY
- SAMPLE PERIOD
- SEA CURRENT DIRECTION PARAMETERS
- SEA CURRENT SPEED PARAMETERS
- SPEED
- TEMPERATURE
- TEMPERATURE PARAMETERS
- TIME
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
-
- CURRENT METERS
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
-
- MOORINGS
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
-
- AMD/AU
- CEOS
- AMD
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
-
- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
- CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- This metadata record is publicly available.
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- licence
- Other constraints
- Data are freely available via the provided URL.
Resource constraints
- File type
- Portable Network Graphic
- Title
- Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Website
-
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
Legal code for Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 International license
- Use constraints
- licence
- Other constraints
- This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=AADC-00045 when using these data.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
Distributor
- Fees
- Free
- Planned available datetime
- 1999-10-07T00:00:00
- Units of distribution
- MB
- Transfer size
- 4.5
- Distribution format
-
- Text
- OnLine resource
-
GET DATA
Download point for the data
- OnLine resource
-
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Only two of the moorings were recovered, mooring 2 and 5, one from both the summer and winter deployment programs. Six of the twelve current meters were recovered. Data were read from Aanderaa tapes and the S4 solid state memory and processed to produce a calibrated data file. Scatter, vector-sum, temperature/time and vector/time (stick) plots were produced. Time series of all data columns from the current meters have been produced, and for the S4 time series of the standard deviation of the U (east) and V (north) velocities. Tidal current analyses have been performed for the currents from each meter.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Maintenance note
- 2011-10-21 - record updated by Dave Connell to correct the use constraints, clearly link the data, and add distribution information. 2014-09-08 - record updated by Dave Connell.
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- string/AADC-00045
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Author
Sponsor
Owner
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- c57d9a67-6346-4b83-97c8-1137e93e11c2
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Date (Last Revision)
- 2015-11-30T03:45:45
Identifier
- Description
- metadata.extraction_date
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- 8.6
- Metadata linkage
-
http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AADC-00045
Point of truth for the metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 1999-10-07T00:00:00
- Date info (Last Update)
- 2017-04-26
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3
- Edition
- 2014
- Other citation details
- Version 1
- Title
- DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile
Overviews
Spatial extent
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