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Merchant Vessel Highland Chief : 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 Highland Chief is a platform of the Enhancement of Measurements on Ships of Opportunity (SOOP) facility. The vessel cruises routinely between south-east of Australia (Melbourne) and Papua New Guinea, including New Zealand, New Caledonia and Solomon Islands. This is a container ship (callsigh VROB), 158 m length (beam 22 m, draught - 8 m) Bulk SST is measured by SBE48 hull contact sensor. The sensor is installed in --- and its depth is varied from - to - meters (depending on loading of vessel). SST data (along with meteorological data from ship AWS) are instantaneous, collected hourly. The data are quality controlled by the Bureau of Meteorology. The daily data files are available from eMII shortly after 0000 UTC.

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Title Merchant Vessel Highland Chief : a platform of the IMOS-SOOP Sea Surface Temperature sub-facility
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/8c345b19-a815-46ae-8971-b260c7194a4a
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
joel.cabrie@bom.gov.au
Reference Period 30/09/2009
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Merchant Vessel Highland Chief : 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-highland-chief-a-platform-of-the-imos-soop-sea-surface-temperature-sub-facility