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Rottnest Island Coastal Station Data 1951-2009

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

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This dataset contains a time-series of oceanographic data collected at the 50m coastal station off Rottnest Island, Western Australia (lat. 32 deg. 00 min. S, long. 115 deg. 25 min. E). The station was set up under the CSIRO coastal monitoring programme in the 1950s and is sampled for temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, nitrate and silicate at depths of 0, 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50m below the surface. Sampling is undertaken at monthly intervals from April 1951 and continued until July 2002, after which the sampling regime was irregular. The data are stored on-line as part of the CMR hydrology archive in Hobart and are available via the CMAR Data Trawler see link below. Since April 2009 the sampling became part of the IMOS program. The current sampling regime is approximately monthly for 11 or 12 months per year. The IMOS sampling includes additional Biological data. The ongoing data is currently available via the IMOS portal. Please see Data Links below. Additional copies of the data up to 1989 are deposited with the NODC data archive (World Data Centre-A) in the U.S.A., and details of relevant data files can be viewed via their website by requesting the file inventory for this coastal station which is NODC platform code "09K2". Station details, plus printed versions of the data up to the end of 1960, have been published in CSIRO's "Oceanographical Station List" series.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title Rottnest Island Coastal Station Data 1951-2009
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/159e4f1e-aa0d-45da-a22f-c222acff93a6
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
data-requests-hf@csiro.au
Reference Period 17/04/1951 - 13/08/2007
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        115.3,
        -32.1
      ],
      [
        115.5,
        -32.1
      ],
      [
        115.5,
        -31.9
      ],
      [
        115.3,
        -31.9
      ],
      [
        115.3,
        -32.1
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal CSIRO Marlin

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on CSIRO Marlin "Rottnest Island Coastal Station Data 1951-2009". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/rottnest-island-coastal-station-data-1951-20091