Brief description
The O&A Trajectory data set includes data collected during the voyages of Australia's Marine National Facility and CSIRO marine research vessels. Trajectory data typically consists of undulating CTD track point data.The subset extracted for MARVL contains data on the continental shelf as defined by the 200 metre depth contour from the 2012 Bathymetric dataset merged (spatial union) with the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the Australian Maritime Boundary dataset (http://www.ga.gov.au/metadata-gateway/metadata/record/gcat_63565) available from Geosciences Australia (GA). This subset of the data contains 867,617 position records from 14 voyages and includes water temperature, pressure, water depth, fluorescence and salinity (derived) and spans from 1995 to the present.
The full data set is held in the O&A Information & Datacentre Data Warehouse, which currently holds over 3,124,509 position records from 31 voyages collected since 1988. This data includes water temperature, pressure, water depth, fluorescence, salinity (derived), oxygen, eco chloro, eco cdom and eco bp. Individual metadata records have been created for each research voyage.
Lineage
Maintenance and Update Frequency: asNeeded
Statement: Data source: Original field data. Data processing and quality control by Marine National Facility Data Acquisition and Processing Group (DAP).
Notes
CreditCSIRO Fisheries, CSIRO Oceanography, CMAR, O&A and Marine National Facility (MNF).
Credit
Trajectory data processed by the CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere (O&A) previously CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (CMAR) Data Acquisition and Processing (DAP) Group.
Trajectory data processed by the CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere (O&A) previously CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (CMAR) Data Acquisition and Processing (DAP) Group.
Data time period: 22 11 1995 to 10 09 2011
text: westlimit=113.0425; southlimit=-33.90573; eastlimit=159.398; northlimit=-11.28217
Subjects
Countries | Australia |
Countries | Papua New Guinea |
Divisional Data Centre 1997- |
EARTH SCIENCE |
Global / Oceans | Indian Ocean |
Global / Oceans | Pacific Ocean |
Global / Oceans | Southern Ocean |
Marine Features (Australia) | Bass Strait, TAS/VIC |
Marine Features (Australia) | Great Australian Bight, SA/WA |
Marine Features (Australia) | Gulf of Carpentaria, NT/QLD |
Marine National Facility |
OCEAN TEMPERATURE |
OCEANS |
Regional Seas | Coral Sea |
Salinity |
SALINITY/DENSITY |
Sea Surface Temperature |
Ship: Franklin |
Ship: Southern Surveyor |
States, Territories (Australia) | New South Wales |
States, Territories (Australia) | Northern Territory |
States, Territories (Australia) | Queensland |
States, Territories (Australia) | South Australia |
States, Territories (Australia) | Tasmania |
States, Territories (Australia) | Victoria |
States, Territories (Australia) | Western Australia |
Vessel Data: undulating CTD |
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere |
oceans |
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Other Information
AODN portal (Individual profile data only) (Data Link)
uri :
https://portal.aodn.org.au/aodn/
Data available from data TRAWLER (Data Link)
uri :
https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/
Creative_Commons_Licence_ccby_O&A_MNF (Documentation Link)
Identifiers
- global : 51eae50f-9415-4dad-9608-6d7332936a29
- Local : Marlin Record Number: 14622
- Local : Anzlic Identifier: ANZCW0306014622