IMOS SOOP Sea Surface Temperature data collected on the Merchant Vessel OOCL Panama

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

This dataset contains Sea Surface Temperature (SST) underway observations collected on trips of a merchant vessel OOCL Panama (callsign VRDU8). Bulk SST is measured by SBE48 hull contact sensor. The sensor is located 8.2m below the summer load line. Observed data are 1-minute median SST values and are retrieved from the vessel once an hour and quality controlled at the Bureau of Meteorology. A daily file is available after 0100 UTC.

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Title IMOS SOOP Sea Surface Temperature data collected on the Merchant Vessel OOCL Panama
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/13a03b59-7625-4493-a0ca-5f6e377af140
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
joel.cabrie@bom.gov.au
Reference Period 06/01/2015
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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      ],
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      ],
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Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "IMOS SOOP Sea Surface Temperature data collected on the Merchant Vessel OOCL Panama". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/imos-soop-sea-surface-temperature-data-collected-on-the-merchant-vessel-oocl-panama1