IMOS - Ships of Opportunity - Sea Surface Temperature data collected on the Merchant Vessel RTM Wakmatha

This dataset contains Sea Surface Temperature (SST) underway observations collected on trips of a merchant vessel RTM Wakmatha (callsign 9V2768).

Bulk SST is measured by SBE48 hull contact sensor. The sensor is located 8-9 m when vessel is laden (Gladstone to Weipa) and 3-4 m when unloaded (Weipa to Gladstone).

Observed data are 1-minute median SST values and are retrieved from the vessel once an hour and quality controlled at the Bureau of Meteorology.

Data and resources

Data available via the IMOS OPeNDAP server

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Additional information

Temporal extent	2014-07-11 – ongoing
Date (creation)	2015-07-10
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