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AAD buoy data collected during ISPOL 2004, Western Weddell Sea
Ice Station POLarstern [ISPOL] was a multi-national, interdisciplinary study coordinated by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany, involving scientists from different institutes and nations across a range of scientific disciplines. ISPOL had been planned as a 50-day drift station in the Western Weddell Sea. Due to particularly heavy sea-ice conditions, the start of the drifting ice station was delayed, so that the drift interval, originating at -68 degrees 10'N, -54 degrees 46'W, lasted only a total of 35 days (28.11.2004 - 01.01.2005).
Data and auxiliary information presented here are on the sea-ice drift and deformation experiment, which was a collaborative research program involving the International Arctic Research Center [IARC] at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the Australian Antarctic Division [AAD], the Finnish Institute of Marine Research [FIMR] and the Alfred Wegener Institute [AWI]. Buoy contributions came from all four institutions listed above. - This metadata record covers only AAD buoy data from the ISPOL 2004 experiment.
To estimate the characteristics of the sea-ice drift and dynamics in the Western Weddell Sea a meso-scale array of 26 drifting ice buoys was deployed for about 30 days during late November and December 2004. Sea-ice drift was obtained from the horizontal GPS-derived location measurements, which were made at all buoys but collected at various temporal resolutions and different spatial accuracies. Auxiliary instruments were attached to some of the sea-ice drifters, including temperature probes for air and sea-ice temperatures, and air pressure sensors. Four of the buoys were left in the ice pack after the end of the ISPOL field phase to record the large-scale drift in the region around the ice station from late summer into winter.
See the metadata record 'Ice Station Polarstern. Aerial photographs over sea ice taken during the ISLOP project' for more information on the ISPOL project. Also, see the URL given below for the ISPOL home page.
Simple
Identification info
- Alternate title
- AAD buoy data collected during ISPOL 2004, Western Weddell Sea
- Date (Publication)
- 2006-05-30
- Edition
- 1
Originator
Publisher
Principal investigator
Collaborator
- Name
- CAASM Metadata
- Status
- Completed
Custodian
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Oceans
Extent
))
Extent
- Description
- Temporal Coverage
Temporal extent
- TimePeriod
- 2004-11-28 2005-01-01
- Title
- Ice Station POLarstern [ISPOL]: Drifting Buoy Data Report
- Date (Publication)
- 2005
Author
Publisher
- Name
- ACE CRC Technical Report
- ISBN
- 1-921197-00-5
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SEA LEVEL PRESSURE
- EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS
- EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE
- EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICE FLOES
- EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICE TEMPERATURE
- EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > PACK ICE
- EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > SEA ICE MOTION
- EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CIRCULATION > OCEAN CURRENTS
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > ICE FLOES
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > ICE TEMPERATURE
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > PACK ICE
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > SEA ICE MOTION
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE
- Keywords
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- sea ice
- drifting buoy
- temperature
- drift
- currents
- Polarstern
- Weddell Sea
- Alfred Wegener Institute
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- DRIFTING BUOYS
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- AMD/AU
- CEOS
- AMD
- ARCTIC
- ACE/CRC
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
- CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > ARCTIC
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- This metadata record is publicly available.
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- licence
- Other constraints
- These data are not yet publicly available.
Resource constraints
- File type
- Portable Network Graphic
- Title
- Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Website
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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=ISPOL2004_AAD_BuoyData when using these data.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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GET DATA
Download link for data file
- OnLine resource
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PROJECT HOME PAGE
Ice Station POLarstern - Project web page
- OnLine resource
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VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset
Resource lineage
- Statement
- The latitudes and longitudes provided in spatial coverage represent the starting location for the drifting buoys. ISPOL had been planned as a 50-day drift station in the Western Weddell Sea. Due to particularly heavy sea-ice conditions, the start of the drifting ice station was delayed, so that the drift interval, originating at -68degr 10'N, -54degr 46'E, lasted only a total of 35 days (28.11.2004--01.01.2005).
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Maintenance note
- 2010-11-18 - record updated by Dave Connell 2015-08-19 - record updated by Dave Connell - Basic updates.
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- string/ISPOL2004_AAD_BuoyData
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Author
Sponsor
Owner
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- 0ad834fe-ea26-478a-a2d9-8bd8a47be842
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Date (Last Revision)
- 2015-11-30T07:34:13
Identifier
- Description
- metadata.extraction_date
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- 8.6
- Metadata linkage
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http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ISPOL2004_AAD_BuoyData
Point of truth for the metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2006-05-30T00:00:00
- 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
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