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Vessel Pacific Sun : a platform of the IMOS SOOP Sea Surface Temperature sub-facility

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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The PV Pacific Sun is a platform of the Enhancement of Measurements on Ships of Opportunity (SOOP) facility. The vessel is a holiday class cruise ship (callsign 9HA2479), 223 m length (beam 28 m, draught - 7.5 m). It performs year-round cruises from Sydney to the South Pacific and tropical North Queensland. Bulk SST is measured by SBE48 hull contact sensor. The sensor is installed in the engine compartment at the depth of 3 meters. SST data (along with meteorological data from ship AWS) are instantaneous, collected every 1 hours. 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 Vessel Pacific Sun : a platform of the IMOS SOOP Sea Surface Temperature sub-facility
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/c465bc70-f9d1-4a4f-84ea-8340b57eab29
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
joel.cabrie@bom.gov.au
Reference Period 12/12/2010
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Vessel Pacific Sun : 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/vessel-pacific-sun-a-platform-of-the-imos-soop-sea-surface-temperature-sub-facility