ASPeCt Sea Ice Data from the SIPEX Voyage of the Aurora Australis in 2007-2008

ASPeCt is an expert group on multi-disciplinary Antarctic sea ice zone research within the SCAR Physical Sciences program. Established in 1996, ASPeCt has the key objective of improving our understanding of the Antarctic sea ice zone through focussed and ongoing field programs, remote sensing and numerical modelling. The program is designed to complement, and contribute to, other international science programs in Antarctica as well as existing and proposed research programs within national Antarctic programs. ASPeCt also includes a component of data rescue of valuable historical sea ice zone information.


The overall aim of ASPeCt is to understand and model the role of Antarctic sea ice in the coupled atmosphere-ice-ocean system. This requires an understanding of key processes, and the determination of physical, chemical, and biological properties of the sea ice zone. These are addressed by objectives which are:


1) To establish the distribution of the basic physical properties of sea ice that are important to air-sea interaction and to biological processes within the Antarctic sea-ice zone (ice and snow cover thickness distributions; structural, chemical and thermal properties of the snow and ice; upper ocean hydrography; floe size and lead distribution). These data are required to derive forcing and validation fields for climate models and to determine factors controlling the biology and ecology of the sea ice-associated biota.


2) To understand the key sea-ice zone processes necessary for improved parameterization of these processes in coupled models.


These ASPeCt measurements were taken onboard the Aurora Australis during the SIPEX voyage in the 2007-2008 summer season.

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Identification info

Alternate title
ASPeCt Sea Ice Data from the SIPEX Voyage of the Aurora Australis in 2007-2008
Date (Publication)
2017-09-01
Edition
1
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:10.4225/15/59a8bd4b05d10

Originator

Heil, P.

Publisher

Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Principal investigator

HEIL, PETRA
Antarctic CRC
GPO Box 252 - 80
University of Tasmania
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia

Collaborator

HEIL, PETRA
Antarctic CRC
GPO Box 252 - 80
University of Tasmania
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia
Name
CAASM Metadata
Website
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/SIPEX_ASPECT

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
Topic category
  • Oceans

Extent

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W


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Description
Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod
2007-09-09 2007-10-11
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE
  • EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICE DEPTH/THICKNESS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICE EXTENT
  • EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICE TYPES
  • EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > PACK ICE
  • EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > SEA ICE CONCENTRATION
  • EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > SNOW DEPTH
  • EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE
  • EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > ICE DEPTH/THICKNESS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > ICE EXTENT
  • EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > ICE TYPES
  • EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > PACK ICE
  • EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > SEA ICE CONCENTRATION
  • EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > SNOW DEPTH
Keywords
  • ASPeCt
  • SIPEX
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • R/V AA > R/V Aurora Australis
  • SHIPS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • AMD
  • AMD/AU
  • CEOS
  • ACE/CRC
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
  • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
  • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA

Resource constraints

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This metadata record is publicly available.

Resource constraints

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licence
Other constraints
These data are publicly available for download from 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

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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=SIPEX_ASPECT when 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

Distributor

Fees
Free
Planned available datetime
2017-09-01T00:00:00
Units of distribution
MB
Transfer size
1.4
Distribution format
  • Excel, Text

OnLine resource
EXTENDED METADATA

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OnLine resource
GET DATA

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OnLine resource
PROJECT HOME PAGE

ASPeCt home page

OnLine resource
PROJECT HOME PAGE

View public details for project 2767

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VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

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Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Maintenance note
2012-10-02 - record created by Dave Connell after data were forwarded onto Miles Jordan by Petra Heil. 2012-10-09 - record updated by Dave Connell. 2017-09-01 - record updated by Dave Connell to publicly release the data.

Metadata

Metadata identifier
string/SIPEX_ASPECT

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Author

CONNELL, DAVE J.
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Sponsor

Australian Antarctic Division

Owner

AADC
Title
Parent Metadata Record
Citation identifier
ASAC_2767

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
ccde7481-0c60-45f7-be66-8a03b80826b3

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Date (Last Revision)
2015-11-30T03:22:16

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/SIPEX_ASPECT

Point of truth for the metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2012-10-02T00:00:00
Date info (Last Update)
2017-09-01

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3
Edition
2014
Other citation details
Version 1
Title
DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile
 
 

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