Geostrophic Subsurface Currents in the Australian Region

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

Geostrophic subsurface currents computed directly from geopotential anomaly, with Lagerlof et al. (1999) equatorial treatment. Computed from CARS2000 3-dimensional seasonal temperature and salinity fields. Monthly values derived from annual and semi-annual temperature and salinity cycles. CARS is a set of seasonal maps of temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, nitrate, phosphate and silicate, generated using Loess mapping from all available oceanographic data in the region. It covers the region 100-200E, 50-0S, on a 0.5 degree grid, and on 56 standard depth levels. Higher resolution versions are also available for the Australian continental shelf. The data was obtained from the World Ocean Atlas 98 and CSIRO Marine and NIWA archives. It was designed to improve on the Levitus WOA98 Atlas, in the Australian region.

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Field Value
Title Geostrophic Subsurface Currents in the Australian Region
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/6ac4cd1d-2bf3-41d8-808a-a39a23d43101
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
Donna.Hayes@csiro.au
Reference Period 01/01/1900 - 01/01/2000
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal CSIRO Marlin

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on CSIRO Marlin "Geostrophic Subsurface Currents in the Australian Region". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/geostrophic-subsurface-currents-in-the-australian-region