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GIS Layer: National Sea Surface Currents in the Australian Region

Created 24/06/2017

Updated 24/06/2017

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ESRI grid and shape files showing magnitude and direction of mean sea surface currents derived from annual and semi-annual temperature and salinity cycles stored in CARS2000. CARS is a set of seasonal maps of temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, nitrate, phosphate and silicate, generated using Loess mapping from all available oceanographic data in the region. It covers the region 100-200E, 50-0S, on a 0.5 degree grid, and on 56 standard depth levels. Higher resolution versions are also available for the Australian continental shelf. The data was obtained from the World Ocean Atlas 98 and CSIRO Marine and NIWA archives. It was designed to improve on the Levitus WOA98 Atlas, in the Australian region. These grids have been produced by CSIRO for the National Oceans Office, as part of an ongoing commitment to natural resource planning and management through the 'National Marine Bioregionalisation' project. Variations in onscreen colour representation or printed reproduction may affect perception of the contained data.

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Title GIS Layer: National Sea Surface Currents in the Australian Region
Language English
Licence Other
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/ab17c931-0d1b-4153-aa02-473721180f49
Contact Point
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere - Information and Data Centre
data-requests-hf@csiro.au
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        90.0,
        -63.0
      ],
      [
        180.0,
        -63.0
      ],
      [
        180.0,
        -3.0
      ],
      [
        90.0,
        -3.0
      ],
      [
        90.0,
        -63.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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