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Merchant Vessel Pacific Celebes : a platform of the IMOS SOOP Sea Surface Temperature sub-facility

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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The MV Pacific Celebes is a platform of the Enhancement of Measurements on Ships of Opportunity (SOOP) facility. This is a multipurpose vessel (callsign VRZN9), 197 m length (beam 32 m, draught - 12 m). It makes regular transects between the east and south-east (Melbourne, Brisbane) coasts of Australia and the west coast of North America (Los Angeles, Vancouver). SST is measured by two different types of sensors. One is Aanderaa 4050, 3 of which are installed in a water tank in the engine room, and a Seabird SBE 48. The water supply to the tank comes from the main water intake at the bottom (at the nominal depth of 12 meters) and about 15-20 meters of piping. SBE48 is located in the engine compartment next to the water tank at the depth of 8 meters (when the ship is fully laden). SST and met data are instantaneous, collected every 5 minutes. The data are quality controlled by the Bureau of Meteorology. The daily data files are available from eMII after 0700 UTC.

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Title Merchant Vessel Pacific Celebes : a platform of the IMOS SOOP Sea Surface Temperature sub-facility
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/7649f99c-5a3a-408e-abb1-1b38118fdbdc
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
joel.cabrie@bom.gov.au
Reference Period 03/11/2011
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Merchant Vessel Pacific Celebes : 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-pacific-celebes-a-platform-of-the-imos-soop-sea-surface-temperature-sub-facilit