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SST Atlas of Australian Regional Seas (SSTAARS) - Daily climatology fit

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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25 years of Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data from NOAA Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites received by six Australian and two Antarctic reception stations have been used to construct a detailed climatology of sea surface temperature (SST) at 20 cm depth around Australasia. The resulting atlas, known as the SST Atlas of Australian Regional Seas (SSTAARS), has a spatial resolution of ~2km and thus reveals unprecedented detail of regional oceanographic phenomena, including tidally-driven entrainment cooling over shelves and reef flats, wind-driven upwelling, shelf winter water fronts, cold river plumes, the footprint of the seasonal boundary current flows and standing mesoscale features in the major offshore currents. The atlas (and associated statistics) will provide a benchmark for high-resolution ocean modelers and be a resource for ecosystem studies where temperatures, and their extremes, impact on ocean chemistry, species ranges and distribution. The SST data used to construct the atlas were one-day composites of night-only AVHRR SST (L3S-1day night) for the period 21 March 1992 to 31 December 2016 provided through the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS: http://www.imos.org.au).

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Title SST Atlas of Australian Regional Seas (SSTAARS) - Daily climatology fit
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/3a4e361f-5911-4971-805c-0f2607839feb
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
Edward.King@csiro.au
Reference Period 21/03/1992 - 01/01/2017
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "SST Atlas of Australian Regional Seas (SSTAARS) - Daily climatology fit". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/sst-atlas-of-australian-regional-seas-sstaars-daily-climatology-fit