Franklin Voyage FR 14/98: Underway Oceanographic Data from New South Wales Coast

New South Wales Coast oceanographic data collected during the Franklin voyage FR 14/98 in November 1998. The dataset contains processed underway measurements, including navigation, thermosalinograph, and meteorological data recorded at 5-minute intervals. It is archived by the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Data Centre in Hobart.

Use Cases

• Modeling coastal ocean currents and water properties based on thermosalinograph (TSG) and navigation data.
• Analyzing atmospheric conditions and air-sea interactions based on meteorological (MET) data.
• Creating time-series visualizations of ship-track environmental data based on 5-minute interval recordings.
• Validating regional oceanographic models with historical in-situ measurements from the New South Wales coast.

Strengths

• Data is processed and archived by the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Data Centre.
• Includes multiple data streams (navigation, sounder, thermosalinograph, meteorological) for integrated analysis.
• Measurements are recorded at consistent 5-minute intervals, providing a continuous time-series.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is from a single voyage in 1998; temporal and spatial coverage is limited.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Data Centre.

Collection Method

Continuously recorded (underway) data from a research voyage.

Time Range

November 1998.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-10 17:44:09.541021; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New South Wales Coast, Australia.