Full description
This dataset contains temperature data from the TOGA/WOCE transect PX2 across the Banda, Java and Flores Seas. Data have been collected since May 1983 and are ongoing. The transect is repeated approximately twice a month. Profiles are obtained approximately every 60km (a 1 degree latitude / 1.5 degree longitude grid). The data are obtained from XBTs (expendable bathythermographs) deployed via the Ship-of-Opportunity Program (SOOP) of the IOC/WMO Integrated Global Ocean Services System (IGOSS), and are now managed by the Joint Australian Facility for Ocean Observing Systems (JAFOOS), a collaborative venture between CSIRO Marine Research and the Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre (BMRC).Lineage
Progress Code: onGoing
Maintenance and Update Frequency: continual
Statement: Data are sourced from XBTs deployed from merchant vessels participating in the IGOSS Ship-of-Opportunity Program (SOOP). Processing and quality control information is given in the cited documentation (Bailey et al. 1994).
Data time period: 1993-05
text: westlimit=112; southlimit=-12; eastlimit=137; northlimit=-6
Subjects
Countries | Australia |
Earth Science | Oceans | Ocean Pressure | Water Pressure |
Earth Science | Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature |
Marine and Ocean Observing Systems 1998-2000 |
Regional Seas | Banda Sea |
Regional Seas | Java Sea |
Temperature of the water body |
World Ocean Circulation Experiment |
XBTs (Expendable Bathythermographs) |
bathythermographs |
oceans |
research vessel |
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Other Information
Further information on this dataset - on JAFOOS web site (Documentation Link)
url :
https://www.bom.gov.au/bmrc/mrlr/JAFOOS/review/PX2.html![]()
Identifiers
- Local : Anzlic Identifier: ANZCW0306005426
- Local : Marlin Record Number: 5426
- global : d1aa3a2a-a1a3-4d1f-af6a-30c52926cdde
