IMOS SOOP-XBT Upper Ocean Thermal Data collected on the line PX33 (Hobart - Macquarie Island)

• Other Authors: AODN Data Manager (pointOfContact), AODN Data Manager (distributor), CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere - Aspendale (hasAssociationWith), CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere - Hobart (hasAssociationWith), CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere - IOMRC Crawley (hasAssociationWith), CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere - St. Lucia (hasAssociationWith), Cowley, Rebecca (processor), Data Officer (pointOfContact), Data Officer (distributor), Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) (resourceProvider)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Ocean Data Network
• Subjects: oceans; WATER PRESSURE; EARTH SCIENCE; OCEAN PRESSURE; WATER TEMPERATURE; OCEAN TEMPERATURE; Bathythermographs | Expendable Bathythermographs (XBT); IMOS Sub-Facility | SOOP-XBT | Expendable Bathythermographs; IMOS Node | Bluewater and Climate; Global / Oceans | Southern Ocean; Offshore Islands (Australia) | Macquarie Island; depth; sea_water_temperature; Antarc*; Antarctic; Macquarie Island; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://researchdata.edu.au/imos-soop-xbt-macquarie-island/693290

Statement: XBT data is collected from the volunteer observing ships and returned to CMAR. We then convert the data into our netcdf format and perform quality control on temperature, rejecting data that shows sign of instrument faults or other anomalies that are not considered 'real'. Any real features of the profile are flagged as well and these flags can be used to study the occurrence of such features (inversions, fine structure, 'steps', etc). The quality control system is based on Matlab and called Mquest. Credit Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) is enabled by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). It is operated by a consortium of institutions as an unincorporated joint venture, with the University of Tasmania as Lead Agent. Credit CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (CMAR) Temperature data from the TOGA/WOCE transect PX33 between Hobart and Macquarie Island has been collected since december 1992 and are ongoing. The transect is repeated irregularly. The data are obtained from XBTs (expendable bathythermographs) deployed by the French Antarctic resupply vessel L'Astrolabe, and are managed by the French Polar Institute (IPEV) and the Joint Australian Facility for Ocean Observing Systems (JAFOOS), a collaborative venture between CSIRO Marine Research and the Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre (BMRC).