Sea Ice Observations from the Aurora Australis V5 1999/00

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

These data describe pack ice characteristics in the Antarctic sea ice zone. These data are in the ASPeCt format. National program: Australia Vessel: Aurora Australis Dates in ice: 01 Feb 2000 - 02 Feb 2000 Observers: Vin Morgan, Anne Palmer, Alison McMorrow, Mark Curran Summary of voyage track: 1-2/2 From ice edge at approx. 65S, 111E to Casey The fields in this dataset are: SEA ICE CONCENTRATION SEA ICE FLOE SIZE SEA ICE SNOW COVER SEA ICE THICKNESS SEA ICE TOPOGRAPHY SEA ICE TYPE RECORD DATE TIME LATITUDE LONGITUDE OPEN WATER TRACK SNOW THICKNESS SNOW TYPE SEA TEMPERATURE AIR TEMPERATURE WIND VELOCITY WIND DIRECTION FILM COUNTER FRAME COUNTER FOR FILM VIDEO RECORDER COUNTER VISIBILITY CODE CLOUD WEATHER CODE COMMENTS

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Title Sea Ice Observations from the Aurora Australis V5 1999/00
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/6a522947-b063-4397-921f-14f4a200f0f1
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
metadata@aad.gov.au
Reference Period 01/02/2000 - 01/02/2000
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        109.0,
        -69.0
      ],
      [
        112.0,
        -69.0
      ],
      [
        112.0,
        -65.0
      ],
      [
        109.0,
        -65.0
      ],
      [
        109.0,
        -69.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Sea Ice Observations from the Aurora Australis V5 1999/00". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/sea-ice-observations-from-the-aurora-australis-v5-1999-001