RV Investigator Voyage IN2020_V06 XBT Data

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

This record describes XBT data collected on RV Investigator voyage IN2020_V06 titled "Probing the Australian-Pacific Plate Boundary: Macquarie Ridge in 3-D." The voyage took place between October 8 and November 3, 2020 departing from Hobart (TAS) and arriving in Hobart (TAS). A total of 23 XBT casts were conducted over the duration of this voyage. Of these casts, 14 were considered acceptable, 4 were bad (failed or high SST) (i.e. 014, 015, 016, 019), 4 were good to only ~200 m (i.e. 003, 004, 005, 006) and 1 had no data at the start of the profile (i.e. 017). 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 IN2020_V06 XBT Data
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/7048c1c3-0de3-49e4-9b91-1724916ef7dd
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
data-requests-hf@csiro.au
Reference Period 31/03/2021
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 IN2020_V06 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-in2020_v06-xbt-data