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Marine National Facility (MNF) Processed Underway Parquet Data

Created 20/04/2026

Updated 20/04/2026

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This record describes the processed Underway (UWY) data collected from the Marine National Facility (MNF) voyages, in Parquet format.

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 Temperature, Pyranometer/Solar Radiation, Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR), Air Temperature, Air Pressure, Rain, Ozone and Trace Gases (port and starboard instruments).

The quality-controlled underway meteorological and SST data are supplied to the IMOS AODN and other global data repositories and distributors, and made available for satellite SST validation by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM).

Near real-time, unprocessed data are available via the link "Visualisation tool for Underway Data" (RV Investigator and RV Linnaeus only).

These data have been processed (quality-controlled), and archived by the CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC). Data are available at time intervals of 5 seconds. Note: not all variables are quality controlled; please check for existing QC flags in the datasets. Additional information regarding this dataset is contained in the Voyage Summary and/or the Data Processing Reports for the corresponding voyages.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title Marine National Facility (MNF) Processed Underway Parquet Data
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/12d9620b-91d2-43b2-89c9-f6aa228c1f8a
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
data-requests-hf@csiro.au
Reference Period 17/04/2026
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        60.0,
        -70.0
      ],
      [
        190.0,
        -70.0
      ],
      [
        190.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        60.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        60.0,
        -70.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on CSIRO Marlin "Marine National Facility (MNF) Processed Underway Parquet Data". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/marine-national-facility-mnf-processed-underway-parquet-data1