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Hydrographic Data from the Gulf of Carpentaria ("Hydrographic Atlas") 1976-1977

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Hydrographic data from six cruises, between April 1976 and March 1977 in the Gulf of Carpentaira are presented. Physical quantities (temperature, salinity and sigma-t) and chemical properties (dissolved oxygen, nitrate and silicate) were measured, and are presented in an associated report both as values at the stations and as contour maps.

These cruises began in 1975 with the initiation of the CSIRO Tropical Prawn Research Project, a new series of Gulf-wide cruises undertaken to study the larval ecology of penaeid prawns.

Approximately 70 stations were occupied on each cruise (with the exception of KL 7/76 which made only three transects in the southern Gulf). Two types of hydrographic stations were undertaken. Type 'A' stations consisted of Nansen casts with bottles every 10m from the surface to the bottom, sampling temperature, salinity, oxygen, nitrate plus nitrite, nitrogen and silicate. Type 'B' stations were Nansen casts with three bottles (at the surface, at 10m depth and within 10m of the bottom) sampling the same parameters as the Type 'A' stations. The sigma-t values were calculated from the temperature and salinity values, and the percentage of oxygen saturation was calculated from the oxygen concentration, temperature and salinity data. The difference between surface and bottom values was also calculated for all properties.

The six cruises included:

FRV Kalinda:
KL 4/76 April 1976
KL 7/76 June 1976
KL 9/76 September 1976

FV Judy B:
JB 2/76 November 1976

FV Raptis Pearl:
TP 1/77 January 1977

RV Sprightly:
TP 3/77 March 1977

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Progress Code: completed
Maintenance and Update Frequency: notPlanned
Statement: Data were downloaded from the CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Data Trawler system, and uploaded to the CSIRO Data Access Portal. (2015-06-30). At this time the data from cruise TP 1/77 (Raptis Pearl 1977-01) was unavailable. This is planned to be added to the Data Access Portal when it becomes available.

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P Rothlisberg
Credit
NJ White
Credit
AMG Forbes

Data time period: 1976-08-23 to 1977-03-29

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text: westlimit=135.5; southlimit=-17.5; eastlimit=142; northlimit=-12

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Earth Science | Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Nitrate | Earth Science | Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Nitrite | Earth Science | Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Nitrogen | Earth Science | Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Oxygen | Earth Science | Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Silicate | Earth Science | Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature | Earth Science | Oceans | Salinity/Density | Salinity | GoC Historical | Marine Features (Australia) | Gulf of Carpentaria, NT/QLD | Nansen Bottles | Research Voyage: SP 03/77 | Ship: Judy B | Ship: Kalinda | Ship: Raptis Pearl | Ship: Sprightly | Tropical Prawn Research Project (1974 - 1978) | Weipa_BPV | oceans |

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CSIRO; Peter Rothlisberg (2015): Hydrographic Data from the Gulf of Carpentaria ("Hydrographic Atlas") 1976-1977. v1. CS (Data Link)

url : https://dx.doi.org/10.4225/08/5593848D9FE36

Rothlisberg et al. (1989) - Hydrographic Atlas of the Gulf of Carpentaria [pdf] (Documentation Link)

url : https://publications.csiro.au/rpr/download?pid=procite:5e08b24e-bd7d-42ff-ab85-f4f9af2acca1&dsid=DS1

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  • Local : Anzlic Identifier: ANZCW0306003203
  • Local : Marlin Record Number: 3203
  • global : e9c479ec-2af1-47fe-ab12-8c76a169882c