Antarctic CRC and Australian Antarctic Division Climate Data Set - Australian iceberg observations

This dataset contains iceberg observations collected routinely on Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) by Antarctic expeditioners on a volunteer basis. The observations were made each austral summer from the 1978/1979 season until the 2000/2001 season. Data included voyage number, date, time, latitude, longitude, sea ice concentration, water temperature, total icebergs, number of icebergs in each width category, the width to height ratio of selected larger tabular icebergs. It was been compiled and presented on the web by the Glaciology program of the Antarctic CRC (now ACE CRC).

Identification info

Alternate title: Antarctic CRC and Australian Antarctic Division Climate Data Set - Australian iceberg observations

Date (Publication): 1999-10-07

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:10.4225/15/5a3849e0c97b7

Originator

Jacka, J.

Publisher

Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Principal investigator

JACKA, JO

ACE CRC AND

AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION

GPO BOX 252-80

Hobart

Tasmania

7001

Australia

Collaborator

JACKA, JO

ACE CRC AND

AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION

GPO BOX 252-80

Hobart

Tasmania

7001

Australia

Name: CAASM Metadata

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

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

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Geoscientific information
Inland waters
Oceans

Extent

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Extent

Description: Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod: 1978-12-13 2001-03-20

NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords

EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICEBERGS
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > SEA ICE CONCENTRATION

Keywords

icebergs

NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords

VISUAL OBSERVATIONS

NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords

SHIPS

NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords

AMD/AU
CEOS
AMD
ACE/CRC

NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords

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 from the provided URL. Some of the original iceberg logs are archived in the Australian Antarctic Division Records Store. The following logs are catalogued under record number b15/114: Voyage 1, 1986 Voyage 5, 1986

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=climate_iceberg 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

+61 3 6232 3244

+61 3 6232 3351 (facsimile)

Distributor

Fees: free

Planned available datetime: 1999-10-07T00:00:00

Units of distribution: kb

Transfer size: 246

Distribution format

HTML

OnLine resource: GET DATA
Tabulated data detailing iceberg observations from 1978/1979 to 2000/2001

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

Resource lineage

Statement: Observations were made each season, since the 1978/1979 austral summer season, using volunteers on ANARE expeditions, until the 2000/2001 season. The data were routinely collected by volunteer expeditioners on ANARE expeditions, and had been collated by the Antarctic CRC (Now ACE CRC) and Australian Antarctic Division. Observations were made at 3 hourly intervals depending on the ship speed. After the first iceberg sighting, observations with no icebergs within the 6nm range, were recorded as 'no iceberg sightings', to distinguish between cases where there were no icebergs and where there were no observation made. At night or in poor visibility, observations were made by recording only the total number of icebergs as shown by radar observation for the 6 nm range. Location was recorded in degrees and minutes using the ships's position, along with the date and local time of the observation. Observations were made by counting the number of icebergs within a 6nm range. This 6nm range was determined by using the ship's radar or by counting all icebergs which were completely above the horizon.

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

Maintenance note: 2009-04-30 - record updated by Dave Connell. 2010-08-10 - record updated by Dave Connell after a cleaned up dataset was provided by Jason Anderson. 2016-07-26 - record updated by Dave Connell to add RM8 information. 2017-12-19 - record updated by Dave Connell to add a dataset DOI.

Metadata

Metadata identifier: string/climate_iceberg

Language: English

Character encoding: UTF8

Author

CONNELL, DAVE J.

Australian Antarctic Division

203 Channel Highway

Kingston

Tasmania

7050

Australia

+61 3 6232 3244

+61 3 6232 3351 (facsimile)

Sponsor

Australian Antarctic Division

Owner

AADC

Type of resource

Resource scope: Dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title: gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd

Citation identifier: 5be8fec6-fbd6-4326-adff-0afc216587a1

Alternative metadata reference

Title: gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd

Date (Last Revision): 2015-11-30T07:11:06

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/climate_iceberg
Point of truth for the metadata record

Date info (Creation): 1999-10-07T00:00:00

Date info (Last Update): 2017-12-19

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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