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Marine and Coastal Management (MCM) - Demersal Surveys

Entry ID: mcm_demersal

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Summary

Abstract: Marine and Coastal Management (MCM) is one of four branches of the Department
of Environmental Affairs and Tourism. It is the regulatory authority
responsible for managing all marine and coastal activities. The demersal data
set has been collected from cruises around the South African Coast, and
currently contains 201741 of 230 families. For ease of extraction the dataset
has been divided into 6 - years ranging from 1983-1985, 1986-1990, 1991-1995,
1996-2000, 2001-2005 and 2006.

Related URL

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Description: Marine and Coastal Management - Demersal Surveys (years 1983-1985) (AfrOBIS)

Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: -40.0

S: -70.0

E: 150.0

W: 60.0

Parent DIF

This data set description is a member of a collection. The collection is described in
underway_ship_data

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1997-09-23

Stop Date: 1997-11-11

Location Keywords

OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Science Keywords

ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE

ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > HUMIDITY

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

ELEVATION

OCEANS

Platform

R/V AA > R/V Aurora Australis

Quality See the Marine Science Support Data Quality and Programmer's Reports at the Related URL section.

Please see the Marine Science Support Data Quality Report via the Related URL section.

Where data for a particular sensor do not exist for a particular time, the last known value is used unless the sensor has been disabled or has encountered an error. For example, some sensors only record data every minute, but the resolution for the underway dataset is 10 seconds, so the same value will be used 6 times a minute. No averages are taken for sensors that capture data at a rate other than every 10 seconds. Instead, each record will be a snapshot of each sensor at that time.

Access Constraints Data stored on DLT tapes. Available online via the Australian Antarctic Division Data Centre web page.

Use Constraints This data set conforms to the PICCCBY Attribution License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=199798020 when using these data.

Ancillary Keywords

BATHYMETRY

MARINE

METEOROLOGY

OCEANOGRAPHY

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Originating Center

Australian Antarctic Division

Data Center

Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia

Data Center URL: http://data.aad.gov.au

Data Center Personnel
Name: DATA OFFICER AADC Phone: +61 3 6232 3244 Fax: +61 3 6232 3351 Email: metadata at aad.gov.au Contact Address: Australian Antarctic Division 203 Channel Highway City: Kingston Province or State: Tasmania Postal Code: 7050 Country: Australia