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Merchant Vessel Xutra Bhum : a platform of the IMOS Ships of Opportunity – Sea Surface Temperature Sensors for Australian Vessels Sub-Facility

Created 11/01/2026

Updated 11/01/2026

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The Merchant Vessel Xutra Bhum is a platform of the Sea Surface Temperature Sensors for Australian Vessels Sub-Facility. The vessel is a container ship (callsign HSB3402 ), 196 m length (beam 32 m, draught - 10 m). It performed regular transects around Australian coasts up to Singapore, with use of this ship for data collection now discontinued (April 2013).

SST data are processed from the hull-contact sensor SBE48 which is located in the bow thruster room at 8.5 m depth.

Observed data are 1-minute median SST values and are retrieved from the vessel once an hour and quality controlled at the Bureau of Meteorology. A daily file is available after 0100 UTC. High-resolution 1-minute median data are available in the delayed mode approximately every 3 months.

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Title Merchant Vessel Xutra Bhum : a platform of the IMOS Ships of Opportunity – Sea Surface Temperature Sensors for Australian Vessels Sub-Facility
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/e14eeb5d-d2bb-4aa5-a680-f07fb2055ebc
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
joel.cabrie@bom.gov.au
Reference Period 03/07/2012 - 12/04/2013
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Merchant Vessel Xutra Bhum : a platform of the IMOS Ships of Opportunity – Sea Surface Temperature Sensors for Australian Vessels 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-xutra-bhum-a-platform-of-the-imos-ships-of-opportunity-sea-surface-temperature-1