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Merchant Vessel OOCL Houston: a platform of the IMOS SOOP Sea Surface Temperature sub-facility

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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The Merchant Vessel OOCL Houston is a platform of the Enhancement of Measurements on Ships of Opportunity (SOOP) facility. The vessel is a container ship (callsign VRDE7, IMO Number 9355757) of 260 m length (beam 32 m, draught – 12.6 m). It performs regular transects around Australian East and West coasts up to Singapore via Indonesian waters. SST data are processed from the hull-contact sensor SBE48 which is located in the bow thruster room at approximately 8 m depth. 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 Merchant Vessel OOCL Houston: a platform of the IMOS SOOP Sea Surface Temperature sub-facility
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/72488fd0-0273-4e0e-bec9-9af7bb22a98d
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
joel.cabrie@bom.gov.au
Reference Period 04/09/2016
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Merchant Vessel OOCL Houston: a platform of the IMOS SOOP Sea Surface Temperature sub-facility". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/merchant-vessel-oocl-houston-a-platform-of-the-imos-soop-sea-surface-temperature-sub-facility