GIS grid showing sea surface temperature total means from data collected by CSIRO Remote Sensing Division from the USA's National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellites. This grid has been produced by CSIRO for the National Oceans Office, as part of an ongoing commitment to natural resource planning and management through the 'National Marine Bioregionalisation' project. Variations in onscreen colour representation or printed reproduction may affect perception of the contained data.

Set of four maps showing mean sea surface temperature from data collected by CSIRO remote sensing division from the USA's National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellites. These maps have been produced by CSIRO for the National Oceans Office, as part of an ongoing commitment to natural resource planning and management through the 'National Marine Bioregionalisation' project.

Map showing sea surface temperature total means from data collected by CSIRO remote sensing division from the USA's National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellites. This map has been produced by CSIRO for the National Oceans Office, as part of an ongoing commitment to natural resource planning and management through the 'National Marine Bioregionalisation' project.

ESRI grid showing wave height and period using satellite derived wave data generated from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology's Wave Model (WAM). This grid has been produced by CSIRO for the National Oceans Office, as part of an ongoing commitment to natural resource planning and management through the 'National Marine Bioregionalisation' project. Data from National Geophysical Data Centre (NGDC) has been supplemented where loss of coverage has occurred in the deep ocean regions.

ESRI grids showing sea temperature, linearly interpolated from CARS2000 mean and seasonal fields to 0.1 degree spaced grid, at depths of 0, 150, 500, 1000 and 2000 metres. The loess filter used to create CARS2000 resolves at each point a mean value and a sinusoid with 1 year period (and in some cases a 6 month period sinusoid - the "semi-annual cycle".) The provided "annual amplitude" is simply the magnitude of that annual sinusoid. 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. CARS2000 is derived from ocean cast data, which is always measured above the sea floor. However, for properties which do not change rapidly near the sea floor, this would not lead to a significant error. All the limitations of CARS2000 also apply here.

Set of three ESRI grids of mean sea surface height derived from annual and semi-annual temperature and salinity cycles stored in CARS2000. 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. 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. These grids have been produced by CSIRO for the National Oceans Office, as part of an ongoing commitment to natural resource planning and management through the 'National Marine Bioregionalisation' project. Variations in onscreen colour representation or printed reproduction may affect perception of the contained data.

Sea surface temperature data (daily and weekly composites) from NOAA Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data received at the Hobart station and processed at CSIRO Marine Research Remote Sensing Facility. The images cover an area from 21.3 to 50.0 degrees South, 130.3 to 167.0 East. The images correspond to the regions and time periods of Southern Surveyor research voyages SS 01/95, SS 11/95, SS 05/96 and SS 11/96, in south-eastern and east Australian waters. The data are contained on CDROM in Hobart, and copies are sent to GRNS (and others?). The Global Research Network System (GRNS) project was carried out between 1993-1997 sponsored by the Japanese Science and Technology Agency (STA).

Sea surface temperature data, in 1, 3, 6, 10 and 15 day composite periods, at approximately 4 km resolution processed from NOAA Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data received at Australian Stations and transformed to the stitched archive (see related record). Temporal coverage of the data is from October 1993-June 2003 and will be extended backwards and forwards through time. The data are in netCDF files and can be viewed as graphics or downloaded as data files from http://www.marine.csiro.au/remotesensing/oceancurrents/

ESRI grid showing ocean primary production extracted from global observations of ocean colour data from the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS). This grid has been produced by CSIRO for the National Oceans Office, as part of an ongoing commitment to natural resource planning and management through the 'National Marine Bioregionalisation' project. Chlorophyll accuracy is about ± 20%.

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) operated by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) support weather forecasting, severe storm tracking, meteorology and oceanography research. Generally there are several GOES satellites in geosynchronous orbit at any one time viewing different earth locations including the GOES-15 launched 4 March 2010. The radiometer aboard the satellite, The GOES N-P Imager, is a five channel (one visible, four infrared) imaging radiometer designed to sense radiant and solar reflected energy from sampled areas of the earth. The multi-element spectral channels simultaneously sweep east-west and west-east along a north-to-south path by means of a two-axis mirror scan system retuning telemetry in 10-bit precision. For this Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) dataset, skin sea surface temperature (SST) measurements are calculated from the far IR channels of GOES-15 at full resolution on a half hourly basis. In native satellite projection, vertically adjacent pixels are averaged and read out at every pixel. L2P datasets including Single Sensor Error Statistics (SSES) are then derived following the GHRSST Data Processing Specification (GDS) version 2.0. The full disk image is subsetted into granules representing distinct northern and southern regions.