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Parent record: Meteorological data recorded during the Jervis Bay Baseline Studies Project

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This record describes components of the 'Jervis Bay Baseline Studies' project conducted by the Department of Defence, CSIRO and Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA). The initial aims of the project were to obtain current and wind observations from Jervis bay over a six week period in order to detail the wind driven circulation and provide a data set for comparison with the numerical modelling work being simultaneously undertaken. However, after this initial experiment it became clear that there were significant currents in the bay that are not simply related to direct wind forcing. Therefore, alternative mechanisms for driving the flow had to be investigated, through the measurement programs and data analysis, as well as through numerical modelling. The result was a series of approximately six separate experiments aiming to define the water circulation around the bay and through the bay entrance, to gain an understanding of the processes that drive the currents, and to investigate the influence of stratification on the nature of the currents. This record doesn't describe one of these six experiments per se, but the data collected from a meteorological station at Governor Head. This Steedman EMS-16 meteorological station housed a R.M. Young anemometer and YSI barometer to measure wind and atmospheric pressure respectively. The site at Governor Head was several hundred metres inland of 50m high cliffs and was 63m above sea-level. Wind data was also collected from an anemometer located at Huskisson, on the west shore of Jervis Bay. This anemometer was operated at the time by the NSW Public Works Department. As this is a parent record, no data is available to download. A pdf outlining the structure and hierarchy of metadata records relating to this project is available through this record. Also provided is a pdf of a working paper that describes the operating and data processing procedures that relate to the meteorological station. There are 36 subsiduary records that directly relate to this parent, through which the data is provided (see hierarchical tree).

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Title Parent record: Meteorological data recorded during the Jervis Bay Baseline Studies Project
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/c26889ee-14c6-44ac-b3bc-53be77c126f5
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
r.robertson@adfa.edu.au
Reference Period 02/11/1988 - 24/09/1991
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Parent record: Meteorological data recorded during the Jervis Bay Baseline Studies Project". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/parent-record-meteorological-data-recorded-during-the-jervis-bay-baseline-studies-project1