RV Investigator Voyage IN2020_V01 ADCP Data

This record describes the Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) data collected from the Marine National Facility RV Investigator voyage IN2020_V01, titled: "Development of William’s Ridge, Kerguelen Plateau: tectonics,hotspot magmatism, microcontinents, and Australia’s Extended Continental Shelf." The voyage took place between January 10 and March 6, 2020, departing from Freemantle and returning to Freemantle.

The primary scientific operations of the voyage were multibeam survey, seismic lines and dredging of the William’s and Broken Ridge features. ADCPs were turned off intermittently to avoid interference with multibeam during surveys. On Jan the 15th the OS75 was reporting excessively high temperatures. According to Uni of Hawaii, this is most likely due to water ingress into the transducer indicating potential failure.

Temperatures eventually settled at full-scale (~97 deg C), which had a significant effect on calculated water velocities. Soundspeed was manually set to 1500 m/s (this is a setting sent to the deck box via UHDAS) for real-time processing, however special processing will be required for the period with bad temperatures and therefore bad soundspeed. Despite this, the OS75 worked well for the remainder of the voyage.

Data was collected in two parts during the voyage at the following dates:

First Part: 10 Jan. 2020 – 18 Jan. 2020 (8 days)
Second Part: 12 Feb. 2020 – 06 Mar. 2020 (24 days)

Note that there is no data from 19th Jan. to 11 Feb. Subsequently, two datasets have been created and processed separately for each part of the voyage.

This dataset was processed (quality-controlled), and then archived by the CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC).