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Merchant Vessel Spirit of Tasmania II : a platform of the IMOS-SOOP Sea Surface Temperature sub-facility

Created 24/06/2025

Updated 24/06/2025

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Enhancement of Measurements on Ships of Opportunity (SOOP) - Enhancement of Measurements on Ships of Opportunity (SOOP) - MV Spirit of Tasmania II collects bulk SST data during its regular trips between Melbourne (Victoria) and Devonport (Tasmania). The vessel is a ROPAX ferry, 194 m length (beam - 25 m, draught - 6.5 m). The ship's callsign is VNSZ. SST is acquired hourly from SBE48 hull-contact sensor that is installed inside the hull at 1.5-2 m below waterline. Also, the meteorological data are available from a ship AWS (Vaisala Milos 500) at the same temporal and spatial resolution. 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 Spirit of Tasmania II : a platform of the IMOS-SOOP Sea Surface Temperature sub-facility
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/e5526fcc-d5df-4195-bd7e-566862f49807
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
joel.cabrie@bom.gov.au
Reference Period 20/07/2017
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Merchant Vessel Spirit of Tasmania II : 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-spirit-of-tasmania-ii-a-platform-of-the-imos-soop-sea-surface-temperature-sub-f