Brief description
Dataset of marine mammal observations made in the Southern Ocean from late 1998 to early 2000.Further information about the data are included in a word document in the download.
The data are held in excel spreadsheets. The word document mentioned above lists the column headings for the excel spreadsheets.
The fields in this dataset are:
date
time
species
Number of animals
Distance
Bearing
Heading
Initial Cue
Behaviour
Latitude
Longitude
Effort status
Notes
Wind speed
Wind direction
Actual wind speed
Actual wind direction
Sea State
Cloud cover
Visibility
Boat speed
Boat course
Speed made good
Course made good
Temperature
Wave Height
Weather
Depth
Swell height
More notes
Lineage
Progress Code: completedData time period: 1998-12-28 to 2000-01-24
text: westlimit=55.42; southlimit=-68.59; eastlimit=179.4; northlimit=-33.1
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