TAN0803: Macquarie Ridge 2 (MacRidge) - Multibeam Bathymetry
Multibeam data collected by the R/V Tangaroa along the Macquarie Ridge, which extends 1400 km southwest New Zealand. The ridge is one of a small number of ridges that interrupt the flow of the
Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the world’s largest current and the dominant
feature in the circulation in the Southern Ocean. The ridge constrains the flow of the
ACC to gaps in the ridge, allowing for a comprehensive measurement of both its mean
flow and the mesoscale variability.
The voyage represented a collaboration between scientists and projects at NIWA and
CSIRO Division of Marine and Atmospheric Research, the Antarctic Climate and
Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (ACECRC), and the Research School of Earth
Sciences, Australian National University (ANU) in Australia, and the Geological Nuclear
Sciences Institute (GNS) in New Zealand.
Voyage objectives:
1. Retrieve moorings deployed in 2007 in the gaps in the Macquarie Ridge
2. Undertake a physical oceanographic survey of the Macquarie Ridge
3. Collect sediment cores along the axis of the Macquarie Ridge and in the Emerald Basin
4. Survey the biodiversity and habitat of seamounts associated with the Macquarie Ridge
5. Deploy Argo floats
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- Date ( Creation )
- 08/07/08
- Date ( Revision )
- 08/07/08
- Purpose
- Research
- Status
- Completed
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- Vector
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- Oceans
- Geoscientific information
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- multibeam bathymetry swath seafloor marine geophysics
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- English
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- UTF8
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- Metadata identifier
- 00003945-wcvn-2kos-j8fc-rl87ols392kg
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
NIWA National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
301 Evans Bay Parade
Hataitai
Wellington
6021
New Zealand
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Date info ( Creation )
- 04/07/12 05:01:14.330924 +12:00
- Title
- ISO 19115-3
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