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Merchant Vessel Portland : 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 Portland is a platform of the Enhancement of Measurements on Ships of Opportunity (SOOP) facility. The vessel operates along the southern coast of Australia between Fremantle (WA) - Bunbury(WA) - Adelaide(SA) - Portland(VIC) - Melbourne(VIC). This is a cargo ship (callsign VNAH ), 184 m length (beam - 28 m, draught - 11 m) Bulk SST is measured by SBE48 hull contact sensor. The sensor is installed in engine compartment and its depth is varied from 2 to 8 meters (depending on loading of vessel). SST data (along with meteorological data from ship AWS) are instantaneous, collected every 3 hours. The data are quality controlled by the Bureau of Meteorology. The daily data are available from eMII shortly after 0000 UTC.

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Title Merchant Vessel Portland : a platform of the IMOS-SOOP Sea Surface Temperature sub-facility
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/71719299-c3ce-4ae9-92cb-14b8f023f411
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
joel.cabrie@bom.gov.au
Reference Period 19/07/2017
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Merchant Vessel Portland : 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-portland-a-platform-of-the-imos-soop-sea-surface-temperature-sub-facility