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In situ Lagrangian drifting buoy data off East Antarctica for the austral spring of 2012, deployed during the SIPEX II voyage of the Aurora Australis

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Updated 24/06/2025

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In situ Lagrangian drifter positions were collected from nine expendable sea-ice buoys. Positions were collected by GPS receivers aboard each buoy and relayed via the CLS Argos satellite data system. The scientific proposal for this project was based on the deployment of two meso-scale buoy arrays over the continental shelf break in the SIPEX 2012 experimental region. Resolving of ice motion over the continental shelf and the shelf break is expected to provide crucial information on sea-ice deformation and ice strength. However, due to the unfavourable cruise track and also due to operational issues with helicopter support, it was not possible to deploy any of the meso-scale buoy arrays. Instead buoys were deployed to resolve ice deformation within the wider SIPEX 2012 region. Position data are available hourly from most buoys. CLS Argos transmitted data suffer from a data transmission blackspot just prior to local none, when there will be no data available. Data processing will be carried out as described in Heil et al. [2008] The dataset is build from ASCII files for each buoy with time stamps and observed latitude and longitude. The format (by column [C] for each file is as following: C1: Program ID C2: Buoy ID C3: Year C4: Month C5: Day C6: Hour C7: Minute C8: Second C9: Day-of-year C10: Lat (degN) C11: Lon (degE)

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Title In situ Lagrangian drifting buoy data off East Antarctica for the austral spring of 2012, deployed during the SIPEX II voyage of the Aurora Australis
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/d8b6217c-0422-4f1e-9725-31867e3a28f5
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
metadata@aad.gov.au
Reference Period 01/09/2012 - 09/11/2012
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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      ],
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "In situ Lagrangian drifting buoy data off East Antarctica for the austral spring of 2012, deployed during the SIPEX II voyage of the Aurora Australis". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/in-situ-lagrangian-drifting-buoy-data-off-east-antarctica-for-the-austral-spring-of-2012-deploy