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Airborne-deployed ocean sensors in the Southern Ocean, 2016-2018, Level 0 data

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Updated 23/06/2025

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Extracted Level 0 data are provided as audio files recorded in flight with a Sony PX470 voice recorder. These files were processed to generate the associated Level 2 products. Project 4346 demonstrated the use of Airborne eXpendable Bathy-Thermograph (AXBT) and Airborne eXpendable Conductivity, Temperature, Depth (AXCTD) sensors from a BT-67 Basler aircraft in East Antarctica. The primary objective was to use AXBT and AXCTD sensors to infer seafloor depth where no previous measurements had been made by ship, often by deploying sensors into narrow gaps in sea ice. Inferring a snapshot of the ocean state by detecting major thermoclines was a secondary objective. Although several sensors were purchased with external funds, the efforts to develop operational and subsequent data analysis approaches were unfunded as this was an add-on, target of opportunity. The effort is best described as a prototype demonstration project to test whether the seafloor depth could be inferred beneath narrow sea ice leads from a rapidly flying aircraft. All but eight AXBT sensors were donated to the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG); AXCTDs were purchased by the Antarctic Gateway Partnership. Receiver and data processing equipment were loaned to UTIG.

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Title Airborne-deployed ocean sensors in the Southern Ocean, 2016-2018, Level 0 data
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/7bbf38cb-ef32-45d4-ad34-e9c7c73a2456
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
metadata@aad.gov.au
Reference Period 01/11/2016 - 31/01/2020
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Airborne-deployed ocean sensors in the Southern Ocean, 2016-2018, Level 0 data". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/airborne-deployed-ocean-sensors-in-the-southern-ocean-2016-2018-level-0-data