Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, AM04 Seabird MicroCAT CTD moorings at three depths in ocean cavity beneath the shelf

AM04 borehole drilled January 2006.

Data being collected at annual re-visits to site.

Consult Readme file for detail of data files and formats. A word document providing further information is also available as part of the download.

All of the .dat files of data can be viewed with a text editor such as Wordpad.

New Data added:

September 2009

November 2011

Identification info

Alternate title: Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, AM04 Seabird MicroCAT CTD moorings at three depths in ocean cavity beneath the shelf

Date (Publication): 2013-10-16

Edition: 3

Citation identifier

Dataset DOI

Title: Information and documentation - Digital object identifier system

Date (Publication): 2012-04-23

Citation identifier: ISO 26324:2012

Citation identifier: doi:10.4225/15/525E1C5A9C7E7

Originator

Allison, I. and Craven, M.

Publisher

Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Principal investigator

ALLISON, IAN

Australian Antarctic Division

203 Channel Highway

Kingston

Tasmania

7050

Australia

Collaborator

ALLISON, IAN

Australian Antarctic Division

203 Channel Highway

Kingston

Tasmania

7050

Australia

Collaborator

CRAVEN, MIKE

Australian Antarctic Division

203 Channel Highway

Kingston

Tasmania

7050

Australia

Name: CAASM Metadata

Website: https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_1164_AM04_MicroCAT

Status: Completed

Custodian

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)

Australian Antarctic Division

203 Channel Highway

Kingston

Tasmania

7050

Australia

+61 3 6232 3244

+61 3 6232 3351 (facsimile)

Topic category

Oceans

Extent

N

S

E

W

Extent

Description: Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod: 2006-01-16 2011-01-08

Extent

Description: Vertical Extent - Altitude

Vertical element

Minimum value: 71.6

Maximum value: 71.6

Identifier: urn:x-ogc:def:cs:EPSG:6499

Name: Vertical CS. Axis: height (H). Orientation: up. UoM: m.

Identifier: urn:x-ogc:def:axis:EPSG:114

Name: height

Extent

Description: Vertical Extent - Depth

Vertical element

Minimum value: 550

Maximum value: 1000

Identifier: urn:x-ogc:def:cs:EPSG:6498

Name: Vertical CS. Axis: depth (D). Orientation: down. UoM: m.

Identifier: urn:x-ogc:def:axis:EPSG:113

Name: depth

NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords

EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS > ICE SHEETS
EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS > ICE SHEETS
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN PRESSURE > WATER PRESSURE
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > CONDUCTIVITY
EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS
EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS

Keywords

AMERY ICE SHELF
AMISOR
HOT WATER DRILL
PRESSURE
SALINITY
TEMPERATURE

NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords

CTD > Conductivity, Temperature, Depth

NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords

GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS
FIELD INVESTIGATION

NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords

AMD/AU
CEOS
AMD
ACE/CRC

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: These data are publicly available for download at the provided URL.

Resource constraints

File type: Portable Network Graphic

Linkage: Creative Commons by Attribution logo

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=ASAC_1164_AM04_MicroCATwhen using these data.

Language: English

Character encoding: UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor

Distributor

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)

Australian Antarctic Division

203 Channel Highway

Kingston

Tasmania

7050

Australia

+61 3 6232 3244

+61 3 6232 3351 (facsimile)

Distributor

Fees: free

Planned available datetime: 2013-10-16T00:00:00

Units of distribution: MB

Transfer size: 19.6

Distribution format

text, .dat, word, pdf

OnLine resource: GET DATA
Download point for the data

OnLine resource: PROJECT HOME PAGE
Public information for ASAC project 1164

OnLine resource: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset

Resource lineage

Statement: See Readme file and calibration document ... SeaBird MicroCAT CTD units placed at three depths in the 400 m deep ocean cavity beneath the ice shelf ... ongoing recording until batteries fail, expected lifetime is 3-5 years ... Minimum and maximum depths provided in spatial coverage are approximate only.

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

Maintenance note: 2008-06-26 - record created by Mike Craven. 2008-07-25 - record updated by Dave Connell - link to data added. 2009-10-16 - record updated by Dave Connell after Mike Craven sent through some data updates in September. 2011-12-01 - record updated by Dave Connell to link 2011 data. 2013-10-16 - record updated by Dave Connell after Mike Craven sent some updated documents and requested a DOI. 2015-03-13 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates. 2019-03-14 - record updated by Dave Connell for ISO compliance.

Metadata

Metadata identifier: string/ASAC_1164_AM04_MicroCAT

Language: English

Character encoding: UTF8

Author

CRAVEN, MIKE

Australian Antarctic Division

203 Channel Highway

Kingston

Tasmania

7050

Australia

Sponsor

Australian Antarctic Division

Owner

AADC

Title: Parent Metadata Record

Citation identifier: ASAC_1164_AM04

Type of resource

Resource scope: Dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title: gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd

Citation identifier: c6197278-231b-46ca-918a-0303d5082af9

Alternative metadata reference

Title: gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd

Date (Last Revision): 2019-03-14T16:17:54

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/ASAC_1164_AM04_MicroCAT
Point of truth for the metadata record

Date info (Creation): 2008-06-25T00:00:00

Date info (Last Update): 2019-03-14

Metadata standard

Title: ISO 19115-3

Edition: 2014

Other citation details: Version 1

Title: DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile

Overviews

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