Sea Surface Temperature Warming Rates in Australian Marine Parks

Created 24/10/2025

Updated 24/10/2025

This dataset measures the overall warming rates of the sea surface temperature (SST) in 58 Australian Marine Parks (except the Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Park) over the past 15 years (2003 to 2017). They are derived from the monthly MODIS (aqua) SST images. The fields of "slope_y" and "slope_m" represent the annual and monthly SST warming rates, respectively. The units of the warming rates are Celsius degree/per annual and Celsius degree/per month. This research is supported by the National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub through Project D1.

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Title Sea Surface Temperature Warming Rates in Australian Marine Parks
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/240b3b3a-7a54-4934-8048-e0e4dddf35ab
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 01/01/2002 - 01/01/2017
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        70.0,
        -60.0
      ],
      [
        170.0,
        -60.0
      ],
      [
        170.0,
        -8.0
      ],
      [
        70.0,
        -8.0
      ],
      [
        70.0,
        -60.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Geoscience Australia

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Sea Surface Temperature Warming Rates in Australian Marine Parks". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/sea-surface-temperature-warming-rates-in-australian-marine-parks2