Kingfish B Coastal Station Data 1978-1980

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

This dataset contains oceanographic data collected at a 50 m coastal station (oil platform) off Lakes Entrance, Victoria (lat. 38 deg. 36 min. S, long. 148 deg. 11 min. E) between August 1978 and March 1980. Station set up under the CSIRO coastal monitoring program in the 1970s and was sampled approximately monthly for temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, phosphate and nitrate. The data are stored on-line as part of the CMR hydrology archive in Hobart. Additional copies of the data are deposited with the NODC data archive (World Data Centre-A) in the U.S.A., and details of relevant data files can be viewed via their website by requesting the file inventory for this coastal station which is NODC platform code "09KB".

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title Kingfish B Coastal Station Data 1978-1980
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/5ac9c52e-3d39-42b8-a41f-4a51172fe65c
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
data-requests-hf@csiro.au
Reference Period 28/08/1978 - 05/03/1980
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        148.0,
        -39.0
      ],
      [
        148.5,
        -39.0
      ],
      [
        148.5,
        -38.5
      ],
      [
        148.0,
        -38.5
      ],
      [
        148.0,
        -39.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal CSIRO Marlin

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on CSIRO Marlin "Kingfish B Coastal Station Data 1978-1980". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/kingfish-b-coastal-station-data-1978-19801