RV Investigator Voyage IN2016_V05 XBT Data

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

This record describes expendable bathythermograph (XBT) data collected on RV Investigator voyage IN2016_v05, "The Great Barrier Reef as a significant source of climatically relevant aerosol particles." The voyage departed Brisbane on 28th September 2016. Leg 1 ended on 11 October with a personnel transfer at Fitzroy Island. Leg 2 ended on 16 October with another personnel transfer at Magnetic Island, then the voyage ended in Brisbane on 24 October 2016. A total of 16 XBT casts were conducted over the duration of this voyage. Data are stored in netCDF files at CSIRO. Additional information regarding this dataset is contained in the GSM data acquisition and processing report. Additional data products may be available on request.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title RV Investigator Voyage IN2016_V05 XBT Data
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/1d38d5de-1be7-4528-8a2e-ab79aaeffe55
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
data-requests-hf@csiro.au
Reference Period 17/11/2016
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        146.0,
        -26.0
      ],
      [
        155.0,
        -26.0
      ],
      [
        155.0,
        -17.0
      ],
      [
        146.0,
        -17.0
      ],
      [
        146.0,
        -26.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal CSIRO Marlin

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on CSIRO Marlin "RV Investigator Voyage IN2016_V05 XBT Data". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/rv-investigator-voyage-in2016_v05-xbt-data