CSIRO Atlas of Regional Seas (CARS2006) Database  


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Abstract

The CARS2006 database is derived from all available historical subsurface ocean property measurements (Ridgway et al, 2002). The measurements have been collected primarily using research vessel instrument profiles and autonomous profiling buoys. The observations have been collected over approximately 50 years and have been used to provide an estimate at every depth and every location in the world's oceans for each day of the year, but not for any individual year. CARS2006 spans the southern 2/3 of the world's oceans, from 70o S to 26o N, except in the Atlantic where is reaches only to10o N. The six water properties mapped in are temperature (deg C), salinity (PSU), oxygen (ml/litre), nitrate (micromole/litre), silicate (micromole/litre), phosphate (micromole/litre). It comprises historic mean fields and average seasonal cycles, derived from all available historical subsurface ocean property measurements (primarily research vessel instrument casts and autonomous profiling buoys). There are 12 grids in the dataset. Two for each of the six water properties: mean and standard deviation. Please see the metadata for more detailed information.

Product Type

dataset

eCat Id

71996

Contact for the resource

  Custodian

EGD  

  Custodian

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Australia  
Locked Bag 10 None
Clayton South
VIC
3169
Australia

  Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)  
Cnr Jerrabomberra Ave and Hindmarsh Dr GPO Box 378
Canberra
ACT
2601
Australia

Keywords

  • Marine Data
( Theme )
  • abiotic surrogates
( Theme )
  • geochemistry
( Theme )
  • marine
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)
  • Marine Geoscience
  • Published_Internal

Publication Date

2011-01-01T00:00:00

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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem    

Classification - unclassified

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence    

Access - restricted

Use - license

Status

Purpose

Maintenance Information

unknown

Topic Category

geoscientificInformation

Series Information

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Unknown

Parent Information

Extents

[-48.155, -7.945, 108.225, 164.225]

Reference System

Spatial Resolution

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Source Information

CERF Marine Biodiversity Hub, CSIRO