IMOS - Deep Water Moorings - Southern Ocean Flux Station (SOFS) - Surface properties (real-time)

Sea Surface Salinity Sea Surface Temperature Ocean surface stress Ocean surface heat flux

This data collection consists of observations at the sea surface made by the Southern Ocean Flux Station (SOFS) mooring, including meteorological parameters, downwelling radiation, and sea water temperature and salinity. Hourly averages of each parameter are delivered in near real-time. SOFS is an observing platform in the Sub-Antarctic Zone, approximately 350 nautical miles south-west of Tasmania. It obtains frequent measurements of the surface and deep ocean properties that control the transfer of heat, moisture, energy and CO2 between the atmosphere and the upper ocean to improve understanding of climate and carbon processes. The mooring was first deployed at (46.7S, 142E) in March 2010.

Data and resources

Southern Ocean Time Series page on IMOS website

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NetCDF files via THREDDS catalog

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View and download data though the AODN Portal

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imos:dwm_sofs_surfaceprop_rt_map

SOFS Surface properties real-time

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dwm_sofs_surfaceprop_rt_data

This OGC WFS service returns filtered geographic information. The returned data is available in multiple formats including CSV.

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OGC WFS help documentation

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dwm_sofs_surfaceprop_rt_map#url

The ncUrlList is a WFS service that returns a list of URLs matching a query.

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ncUrlList help documentation

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Access to Jupyter notebook to query Cloud Optimised converted dataset

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Website of the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)

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Website of the Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN)

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License Graphic

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Additional information

Date (creation)	2014-01-08
Date (revision)	2014-01-21
Status	onGoing
Update frequency	continual
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