Aurora Australis WOCE Southern Ocean oceanographic data, cruise au9501

Oceanographic measurements were conducted along WOCE Southern Ocean meridional section SR3 between Tasmania and Antarctica, and around the boundary of a square-plan test volume south of the Antarctic Divergence, from July to September 1995 on voyage 1 of the 1995/1996 summer season. A total of 208 CTD vertical profile stations were taken, 64 of those to near bottom, and the remaining 144 to a depth of 500 m. Over 2300 Niskin bottle water samples were collected for the measurement of salinity, dissolved oxygen, nutrients (phosphate, nitrate+nitrite, silicate), dissolved organic and inorganic carbon, iodate/iodide, primary productivity, and biological parameters, using both a 24 and 12 bottle rosette sampler. Near surface current data were collected using a ship mounted ADCP. Measurement and data processing techniques are summarised, and a summary of the data are presented in graphical and tabular form.

The fields in this dataset are:
oceanography
ship
station number
date
start time
bottom time
finish time
cruise
start position
bottom position
finish position
maximum position
bottom depth
pressure
sigma-T
temperature (C) (ITS-90)
salinity (PSS78)
density-1000 (kg.m-3)
specific volume anomaly x 108
geopotential anomaly
dissolved oxygen (mmol.l-1)
number of data points used in the 2 dbar averaging bin
standard deviation of temperature values in the 2 dbar bin
standard deviation of conductivity values in the 2 dbar bin
fluorescence
photosynthetically active radiation
CTD pressure (dbar)
CTD temperature (C) (ITS-90)
reversing thermometer temperature (C)
CTD conductivity (mS.cm-1)
CTD salinity (PSS78)
bottle salinity (PSS78)
bottle quality flag (-1=rejected, 0=suspect, 1=good)
niskin bottle number