IMOS - Ships of Opportunity - Sea Surface Temperature data collected on the PV Pacific Sun

Sea Surface Temperature Ocean surface stress

This dataset contains Sea Surface Temperature (SST) underway observations collected on trips of the PV Pacific Sun (callsign 9HA2479).

Bulk SST is measured by SBE48 hull contact sensor. The sensor is installed in the engine compartment at the depth of 3 metres. SST data (along with meteorological data from ship AWS) are instantaneous, collected every 1 hour.

The data are quality controlled by the Bureau of Meteorology. The daily data files are available from the AODN shortly after 0000 UTC.

Data and resources

Data available via the IMOS OPeNDAP server

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Additional information

Temporal extent	2010-12-12 – ongoing
Date (creation)	2011-05-30
Status	onGoing
Update frequency	asNeeded
Metadata language	en
License	Data, products and services from IMOS are provided "as is" without any warranty as to fitness for a particular purpose.
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-11-05
Created	2026-11-05
API	package_show