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A qualitative investigation into scavenging of airborne sea salt over Macquarie Island.
Entry ID: ANARE-26

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Summary
Abstract: A comparative study made on the amount of sea salt (dominantly NaCl) deposited on Macquarie Island due to atmospheric precipitation. It is found that the scavenging of solid salt particles alone cannot account for all the salt budget over certain areas of the Island. It is considered that sea spray droplets carried aloft by winds and scavenged by precipitation in the immediate vicinity of the shoreline is responsible for this deficit.

The fields in this dataset are:
Site details: Altitude, Distance from west coast and Mean annual precipitation.
Chemical component
Bubble size diameter
Mass of salt particle
Dry salt particle radius
Number of equivalent days of continuous precipitation
Site: Plateau, Wireless Hill, Isthmus
Dry salt particles
Sea spray droplets
Total fallout
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Geographic Coverage
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Spatial coordinates   
  N: -54.63   S: -54.63   E: 158.88   W: 158.88

Temporal Coverage
Start Date: 1961-01-24
Stop Date: 1963-03-31
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Quality This work is based on data collected by Evans in 1961-1963.
Access Constraints The dataset is available for download from the URL given below.
Use Constraints This data set conforms to the PICCCBY Attribution License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Ancillary Keywords
Data Set Progress
COMPLETE
Originating Center
Data Center
Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia Supplemental Info
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
Distribution
Distribution Media: HTTP
Distribution Size: 4 KB
Distribution Format: .csv
Fees: free
Personnel
SARAH JANINE PARK
Role: DIF AUTHOR
Phone: +61 3 6232 3157
Fax: +61 3 6232 3351
Email: sarah.park at aad.gov.au
Contact Address:
203 Channel Highway
Australian Antarctic Division
City: Kingston
Province or State: Tasmania
Postal Code: 7050
Country: Australia
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Publications/References
Mallis, M. (1985) A qualitative investigation into scavenging of airborne sea salt over Macquarie Island. ANARE Research Notes 26. 18 pp
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2003-03-24
Last DIF Revision Date: 2008-04-10

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