RV Investigator Voyage IN2017_C02 Underway UWY Data

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

This record describes the Underway (UWY) data collected from the Marine National Facility (MNF) RV Investigator Voyage IN2017_C02, titled: "RAN Hydrographic Survey." The voyage took place between May 4 and May 15, 2017 departing from Hobart (TAS) and arriving in Bell Bay (TAS). Standard Underway data is continuously recorded, consisting of: (1) Navigation data (NAV): Latitude, Longitude, Speed, Heading, Course Over Ground, Gyros, and Doppler Log (dual GPS instrument). (2) Thermosalinograph (TSG): Water Salinity, Flow-Rate, Temperature, Fluorescence, pCO2 and Optode/Oxygen. (3) Atmospheric (MET): Humidity, Wind Speed and Direction (vane and ultrasonic), Radiometer/Sea Surface Temprature, Pyranometer/Solar Radiation, Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR), Air Temperature, Air Pressure, Rain, Ozone and Trace Gases (port and starboard instruments). Data are recorded at 5 second intervals. Near real-time data are available via the link "Visualisation tool for Underway Data." This dataset has been processed and archived within the CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere (O&A) Information and Data Centre (IDC) in Hobart (TAS). Data are available at time intervals of 5 sec (NetCDF format), 10 sec and 5 min (ASCII format). Additional information regarding this dataset is contained in the Voyage Summary and/or the Data Processing Report for this voyage.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title RV Investigator Voyage IN2017_C02 Underway UWY Data
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/6a108632-38eb-4e48-93cf-7543af9c7033
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
data-requests-hf@csiro.au
Reference Period 04/05/2017 - 15/05/2017
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal CSIRO Marlin

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on CSIRO Marlin "RV Investigator Voyage IN2017_C02 Underway UWY 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-in2017_c02-underway-uwy-data