RV Investigator Underway Data for Sea Acceptance Testing Voyage IN2018_E01

RV Investigator Voyage IN2018_E01 Underway UWY Data (Unprocessed) was collected by the Marine National Facility between June 9 and June 11, 2018, departing from and arriving in Hobart, Tasmania. The dataset includes continuous navigation, thermosalinograph, and atmospheric measurements. These data are supplied to the Australian Ocean Data Network and used by organizations like NOAA and the UK Met Office for satellite sea surface temperature validation and global meteorological analyses.

Use Cases

• Validate satellite-derived sea surface temperature products based on in-situ thermosalinograph measurements.
• Calibrate numerical weather prediction model boundary conditions based on real-time atmospheric and SST data.
• Study ocean-atmosphere interaction and air-sea fluxes based on continuous meteorological and oceanographic measurements.
• Perform quality control and monitoring of in-situ oceanographic data for global data assimilation systems.

Strengths

• Data is used in major international climate products including ICOADS R3.0, ERSST.v4, and HadSST3.
• Voyage dates and location (Hobart, June 9-11, 2018) are explicitly stated.
• Data feeds into real-time operational systems at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the Global Telecommunications System.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Marine National Facility RV Investigator

Collection Method

Continuously recorded underway data from shipboard instruments.

Time Range

June 9, 2018 to June 11, 2018

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-17 02:17:36.457982; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Voyage departed from and arrived in Hobart, Tasmania; specific route not detailed.