Sea Ice Observations from the Aurora Australis V2 1993/94

These data describe pack ice characteristics in the Antarctic sea ice zone.

These data are in the ASPeCt format.

National program: Australia

Vessel: Aurora Australis

Dates in ice: 20 Oct 1993 - 01 Nov 1993

Observers: Martin Higham, Rob Kiernan, David N, D Murphy

Summary of voyage track:

20/10 Ice edge at approx 60S, 114E

20-28/10 Vessel steamed westward to Mawson

30/10 - 2/11 Vessel steamed from Mawson to Davis

No sea ice observations were made after Davis

The fields in this dataset are:

SEA ICE CONCENTRATION

SEA ICE FLOE SIZE

SEA ICE SNOW COVER

SEA ICE THICKNESS

SEA ICE TOPOGRAPHY

SEA ICE TYPE

RECORD

DATE

TIME

LATITUDE

LONGITUDE

OPEN WATER

TRACK

SNOW THICKNESS

SNOW TYPE

SEA TEMPERATURE

AIR TEMPERATURE

WIND VELOCITY

WIND DIRECTION

FILM COUNTER

FRAME COUNTER FOR FILM

VIDEO RECORDER COUNTER

VISIBILITY CODE

CLOUD

WEATHER CODE

COMMENTS

Identification info

Alternate title: Sea Ice Observations from the Aurora Australis V2 1993/94

Date (Publication): 2001-09-07

Edition: 1

Originator

Worby, A.P.

Publisher

Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Principal investigator

WORBY, ANTHONY PETER

University of Tasmania

Private Bag 80

Hobart

Tasmania

7001

Australia

Collaborator

WORBY, ANTHONY PETER

University of Tasmania

Private Bag 80

Hobart

Tasmania

7001

Australia

Name: CAASM Metadata

Website: https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASPECT_AA101193

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: 1993-10-20 1993-11-01

NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords

EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICE DEPTH/THICKNESS
EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICE FLOES
EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICE TYPES
EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > PACK ICE
EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > SEA ICE CONCENTRATION

Keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE
CLOUD
COMMENTS
DATE
FILM COUNTER
FRAME COUNTER FOR FILM
LATITUDE
LONGITUDE
OPEN WATER
RECORD
SEA ICE CONCENTRATION
SEA ICE FLOE SIZE
SEA ICE SNOW COVER
SEA ICE THICKNESS
SEA ICE TOPOGRAPHY
SEA ICE TYPE
SEA TEMPERATURE
SNOW THICKNESS
SNOW TYPE
TIME
TRACK
VIDEO RECORDER COUNTER
VISIBILITY CODE
WEATHER CODE
WIND DIRECTION
WIND VELOCITY

NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords

SHIPS
R/V AA > R/V Aurora Australis

NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords

ASPECT > Antarctic Sea Ice Processes and Climate

NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords

AMD/AU
CEOS
AMD
ACE/CRC

NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords

OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
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 from the provided URL and from the ASPECT website. Note that to use the original log files, you will also need to download the provided software in order to extract the data.

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=ASPECT_AA101193 when using these data. Authors should acknowledge use of the ASPeCt data archive - "The ship-based sea ice and snow thickness data were provided by the SCAR Antarctic Sea Ice Processes and Climate (ASPeCt) program (aspect.antarctica.gov.au)".

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: 2001-09-07T00:00:00

Distribution format

pdf, text

OnLine resource: DOWNLOAD SOFTWARE
Download point for sea ice software

OnLine resource: GET DATA
Download point for the data - log files, postscript files, excel files.

OnLine resource: PROJECT HOME PAGE
ASPECT website

OnLine resource: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Download the ASPECT Report - A Technique for Making Ship-Based Observations of Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness and Characteristics

OnLine resource: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Readme file containing instructions on how to use the log files and software.

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

Resource lineage

Statement: Each parameter is assigned a data quality flag as defined below: Flag 1: Error free Flag 2: Dubious. Non-specific errors Flag 3: Known errors exist that can be fixed Flag 4: Known errors exist that cannot be fixed Flag 5: No data - not observed Flag 6: Data in analog format only Time and position: 1 Total ice concentration: 1 Open water: 1 Pri ice concentration: 1 Pri ice type: 1 Pri ice thickness: 1 Pri floe size: 1 Pri topography: 1 Pri snow type: 1 Pri snow thickness: 1 Sec ice concentration: 1 Sec ice type: 1 Sec ice thickness: 1 Sec floe size: 1 Sec topography: 1 Sec snow type: 1 Sec snow thickness: 1 Ter ice concentration: 1 Ter ice type: 1 Ter ice thickness: 1 Ter floe size: 1 Ter topography: 1 Ter snow type: 1 Ter snow thickness: 1 Air temperature: 1 Water temperature: 1 Wind speed: 1 Wind direction: 5 Cloud: 1 Current weather: 5/3 Visibility: 5 Video reading: 5 Photo (film no.): 5 Photo (frame no.): 5 Comments: 6

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

Maintenance note: 2008-06-19 - record updated by Dave Connell. 2017-02-01 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates.

Metadata

Metadata identifier: string/ASPECT_AA101193

Language: English

Character encoding: UTF8

Author

WORBY, ANTHONY PETER

University of Tasmania

Private Bag 80

Hobart

Tasmania

7001

Australia

Sponsor

Australian Antarctic Division

Owner

AADC

Title: Parent Metadata Record

Citation identifier: ASPECT

Type of resource

Resource scope: Dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title: gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd

Citation identifier: 2ac3ae52-68f0-4333-9bd8-e7271b2e3435

Alternative metadata reference

Title: gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd

Date (Last Revision): 2015-11-30T06:40:06

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/ASPECT_AA101193
Point of truth for the metadata record

Date info (Creation): 2001-07-20T00:00:00

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

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