Data Trawler - Survey Details

FR 03/95 (alternative identifier: FR199503)    - is a Marine National Facility voyage

Period: 1995-04-01 00:00 to 1995-04-24 00:00 Local

Duration: 23.00 days

From: Fremantle To: Darwin

Region: East Indian Ocean

Ship: Franklin [details]

Description: Cruise FR 03/95 forms part of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE). Repeat hydrographic sections were conducted in the east Indian Ocean between Australia and the boundary of the Indonesian territorial waters (along the IX1 Volunteer Observing Ship Track). Survey methods included ADCPs, CTDs, XBTs, and underway instrumentation. Data and water samples were collected for on board and laboratory analyses. Preliminary data reveal a property field rich in mesoscale and fine structure. At least two sharp property fronts between waters of subtropical South Indian and those of Pacific/Indonesian origin are evident near 18 deg. S and 16 deg. S in the upper 500 db. The change in salinity across these fronts is around 0.5. An extremely fresh 80 m thick layer was found north of about 13 deg. S. This layer appeared to be moving southwards at over 1 kt, a feature of the velocity field that persisted for the several days of sampling in that region.
An opportunistic ADCP/XBT survey was made of the Leeuwin Current which encloses four ocean volumes (Fremantle-Abrolhos, Abrolhos-Carnarvon, Carnarvon-Point Farquhar, Point Farquhar-Exmouth). Preliminary analysis of these data show a robust Leeuwin Current flowing south at the shelf break, except off Fremantle and Exmouth. Off Fremantle the main current core is headed directly offshore and off Exmouth, the current was absent from the shelf break and appeared to be flowing southwards in deeper waters offshore.

Leader: S. Wijffels, G. Cresswell, S. Godfrey, G. Meyers (CSIRO) including other Pis

Project: Climate Change 1989-1997 [details]

Marlin Metadata:-

Franklin Voyage FR 03/95 ADCP Data [details]

Franklin Voyage FR 03/95 CTD Data [details]

Franklin Voyage FR 03/95 Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) Data [details]

Franklin Voyage FR 03/95 Hydrology Data [details]

Franklin Voyage FR 03/95 Underway Data [details]

Metadata from OBIS Australia datasets:- biological data is published via the OBIS-AU IPT server and delivered to one or more of OBIS, ALA and GBIF

Participants - on ship:-

This list includes those that may have only been on part of the voyage. See voyage reports on 'Reports and Maps' tab for details.

Marine National Facility Reports - plans, summaries and data processing

• FR199503 Voyage Summary - includes preliminary results, voyage narrative, types of data collected with C77/ROSCOP codes.

• FR199503 Voyage Plan - includes objectives, investigator details, proposed data collection, voyage track and equipment to be used.

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Publications, reports and datasets from this voyage.

Data publishing

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