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Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) data from the SIPEX II voyage of the Aurora Australis

Multiple CTD (conductivity, temperature, depth) casts were deployed during the SIPEX II AAD Marine Science voyage in September-November 2012. The system uses a descending rosette capable of holding up to 24 CTD bottles. During this voyage the CTD rosette also housed two krill traps (using controllable lights) and two GoPro cameras contained in pressurised, waterproof containers that were used to monitor the krill traps and view objects both on the sea bed and in the water column.


Some functions of the GoPro cameras could be controlled from within the ship using the same transmission cable used by the CTD system. These functions included being able to change the focus setting of the cameras or start/stop recording. More information about the krill traps and cameras is contained in the SIPEX II Bottom Krill dataset.


When a bottle is 'fired' from the ship it briefly opens, draws in water samples and closes again. It is not reopened until it is brought on board the ship. Bottles are opened at different depths to obtain samples from these depths. The depths vary from cast to cast and so are recorded in the CTD Log sheets (contained in this dataset as PDF files).


Only raw data is contained in this dataset. The raw data was used by a variety of experiments during the SIPEX II voyage to produce results applicable to each experiment.


Thanks go to the P and O crew of the RV Aurora Australis for their assistance during CTD operations.

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Alternate title
Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) data from the SIPEX II voyage of the Aurora Australis
Date (Publication)
2017-09-04
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:10.4225/15/59acb910574c9

Originator

Meiners, K., King, R., Reeve, J. and Williams, J.

Publisher

Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Principal investigator

MEINERS, KLAUS
Sea-ice Ecologist
Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (ACE CRC)
Private Bag 80
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia
+ 61 3 6226 7201

Principal investigator

KING, ROB
Australian Antarctic Division
Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
+61 3 6232 3527

Collaborator

REEVE, JONO
203 Channel Highway
Australian Antarctic Division
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
+61 3 6232 3106

Collaborator

JORDAN, MILES
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Collaborator

WILLIAMS, JIM
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
Name
CAASM Metadata
Website
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/SIPEX_II_CTD

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

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Description
Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod
2012-09-14 2012-10-14
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > CONDUCTIVITY
  • EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE
  • EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > WATER DEPTH
Keywords
  • SIPEX
  • CTD
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • CTD > Conductivity, Temperature, Depth
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • R/V AA > R/V Aurora Australis
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • AMD
  • AMD/AU
  • CEOS
  • ACE/CRC
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
  • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
  • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

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This metadata record is publicly available.

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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_II_CTD when using these data.
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

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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)

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Free
Planned available datetime
2017-09-04T00:00:00
Units of distribution
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Transfer size
52
Distribution format
  • ASCII

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GET DATA

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PROJECT HOME PAGE

Public information for ASAC project 4073

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VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

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Statement
Occasionally a bottle would not fire. It is thought that the camera communication was interfering with the CTD messages from the ship to the rosette. The workaround was to fire the bottle directly after a message was received form the camera, then confirm that it had fired before starting to write down the details of the fire on the CTD log sheet.
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Dataset
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Maintenance note
2013-01-10 - record created by Dave Connell. 2017-09-04 - record updated by Dave Connell to publicly release the data.

Metadata

Metadata identifier
string/SIPEX_II_CTD

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Author

JORDAN, MILES
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Sponsor

Australian Antarctic Division

Owner

AADC
Title
Parent Metadata Record
Citation identifier
SIPEX_II

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Dataset

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Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
fb2162ce-6308-4595-8e7b-11ec9275b9c8

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Date (Last Revision)
2015-11-30T03:22:58

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Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
8.6

Metadata linkage
http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/SIPEX_II_CTD

Point of truth for the metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2013-01-10T00:00:00
Date info (Last Update)
2017-09-04

Metadata standard

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

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