Sea surface temperature data, in DISIMP images, from NOAA Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data received at the ACRES station in Alice Springs. Data starts from Apr. 1991, and is calculated using an objective analysis procedure written in IDL. The images cover the Australian continent and surrounding oceans. The data are contained on CDROMs in Hobart.

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).

The CSIRO Marine Research Remote Sensing facility automatically receives and archives data from the USA's National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellites. Up to 18 passes per day are tracked to receive data. The Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data is received on the High Resolution Picture Transmission (HRPT) signal. Within an hour of reception, these data are automatically processed into full resolution sea surface temperature (SST) images. Raw data originate from the AVHRR sensor on various NOAA polar orbiting satellites, received at various stations around Australia and consolidated ("stitched") by the CSIRO Earth Observation Centre. The stitching removes redundancy and minimises data corruption. Processing from the stitched archive to produce SST is carried out in the CMAR Remote Sensing Facility in Hobart using the split window algorithm of McMillin for NOAA9 and NOAA12 satellites and the NLSST (NOAA non-linear SST) algorithm for the other satellites. Cloud-clearing is performed based on the algorithm of Saunders and Kriebel. Each map is made by combining the estimates over the composite period using a time and spatial neighbourhood median filtering method. Each pixel of the images is the 65 percentile of all cloud-cleared SST estimates during the composite period and within a 4x4 km region. The compositing process also removes most residual cloud contamination. This basedata has been produced by CSIRO for the National Oceans Office, for the purposes of marine mapping, as part of an ongoing commitment to natural resource planning and management through the 'National Marine Bioregionalisation' project. Compositing attempts to overcome the problem of cloud coverage. The compositing technique used here takes the median value of a 4 by 4 neighbourhood of 1km resolution pixels over all the data available for that time period. If there has not been at least one cloud free view of a point on the ground during the composite period, the value recorded may show a false low temperature.

Sea surface temperature data, in "Serov" DISIMP images, from NOAA Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data received at the Hobart station. Data starts from Jul. 1991. The images cover the "EAST" area, which is bounded by Serov coordinates 15300,7801,16018,9520. The data are contained on CDROMs in Hobart.

Sea surface temperature data, in DISIMP images, from NOAA Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data received at Australian Stations including ACRES (Alice Springs), WASTAC (Perth), Australian Institute of Marine Science (Townsville), CSIRO Marine Laboratories (Hobart), CSIRO Atmospheric Research (Melbourne) and Bureau of Meteorology (Darwin). Potentially overlapping data from each station was consolidated ("stitched") into a single, Australia-wide image per satellite overpass by the CSIRO/Earth Observation Centre, from various NOAA satellites with both day and night passes. Data spans from October 1993 to June 2003. SST is calculated using the NLSST (non-linear SST) algorithm or the split window (McMillin) algorithm. The images cover the Australian continent and surrounding oceans. The data are contained on magnetic tape in Hobart.

Sea surface temperature data, in netCDF format, from NOAA Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data, processed in Hobart by the CMR Remote Sensing Facility. The dataset includes both the Pathfinder SST daily images, and the optimal estimates (and error fields) made from them, at 10-day intervals. Data starts from Jan. 1988, and is calculated using an objective analysis procedure written in Matlab. The images cover the Australian continent and surrounding oceans. The data are contained on 7 CDROMs in Hobart.