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Ocean wind noise in the Australian EEZ

This record describes a gridded map of ocean wind noise for Australian EEZ for a typical April-September period.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2021-03-03

Principal investigator

Centre for Marine Science and Technology (CMST), Curtin University - Erbe, Christine
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Collaborator

CSIRO - Peel, David
ORCID ID >

Collaborator

School of Veterinary and Life Sciences (VLS), Murdoch University - Smith, Josh
Status
Completed

Point of contact

CSIRO - Peel, David
GPO Box 1538
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia
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Topic category
  • Oceans

Extent

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S
E
W


Temporal extent

Time period
2013-01-01 2013-12-31
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
Keywords (Theme)
  • Noise
  • ocean wind noise
  • Cumulative noise from wind
  • Cumulative sound exposure levels (C-SEL) from shipping
  • Cumulative ship noise minus wind noise
NASA/GCMD Keywords, Version 8.5
  • EARTH SCIENCE | OCEANS

Resource constraints

Other constraints
This dataset is hosted by the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania, on behalf of Curtin University, Murdoch University, CSIRO, and NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Project C5.

Resource constraints

Classification
Unclassified

Resource constraints

Use limitation
Data was sourced from the NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub – the Marine Biodiversity Hub is supported through funding from the Australian Government’s National Environmental Science Program (NESP), administered by the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment (DAWE).

Resource constraints

Linkage
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License Graphic

Title
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License


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Website
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

License Text

Other constraints
The citation in a list of references is: citation author name/s (year metadata published), metadata title. Citation author organisation/s. File identifier and Data accessed at (add http link).
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Supplemental Information
Erbe, C., Duncan, A., Peel, D. Smith, J.N. (2021). Underwater noise signatures of ships in Australian waters. Report to the National Environmental Science Program, Marine Biodiversity Hub. CMST Curtin University.

Content Information

Content type
Physical measurement
Name
Cumulative noise from wind

Name
WINTotal

Name
dB re 1uPa2s
Name
Cumulative sound exposure levels (C-SEL) from shipping

Name
NoiShpA

Name
dB re 1 uPa2s
Name
Cumulative ship noise minus wind noise

Name
NoiDiff

Name
dB

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • Shapefile

OnLine resource
NESP:WindNoise_cumulative_vector

MAP - cumulative 6-month ocean wind noise (vector product)

OnLine resource
NESP:WindNoise_cumulative_raster

MAP - cumulative 6-month ocean wind noise (raster product)

OnLine resource

Protocol
OGC:WFS-1.0.0-http-get-feature--shapefile
Name of the resource
SHAPE-ZIP
Description
DATA ACCESS (vector product) - cumulative ocean wind noise [download Shapefile via WFS]
OnLine resource
DATA ACCESS (raster product) - cumulative ocean wind noise [.tif direct download]

OnLine resource
View map in interactive Seamap Australia portal

Resource lineage

Statement
The wind map was produced by converting the hourly root-mean square sound pressure levels to linear mean-square sound pressures and integrating over time. Taking 10log10 yielded cumulative sound exposure levels over the 6-month period in each grid cell.
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/0d3c7edc-463a-4fa0-8039-4d5a779035c3

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS) - Emma Flukes (NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Data Manager)
Parent metadata
  • NESP MB Project E2 - Characterising anthropogenic underwater noise to improve understanding and management of acoustic impacts to marine wildlife

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/0d3c7edc-463a-4fa0-8039-4d5a779035c3

Point of truth URL of this metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2021-04-12T22:45:51
Date info (Revision)
2024-10-21T00:40:26

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3:2018
 
 

Overviews

Spatial extent

N
S
E
W


Keywords

Cumulative noise from wind Cumulative ship noise minus wind noise Cumulative sound exposure levels (C-SEL) from shipping Noise ocean wind noise
NASA/GCMD Keywords, Version 8.5
EARTH SCIENCE | OCEANS

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