Date (Creation)

2017-04-20

Edition

V2 [current version]

Edition date

2017-04-20T00:00:00

Status

On going

Temporal resolution

P0Y1M0DT0H0M0S

Topic category

• Oceans

Maintenance and update frequency

Annually

Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords Version 8.0

• EARTH SCIENCE | OCEANS | OCEAN TEMPERATURE
• EARTH SCIENCE | OCEANS | OCEAN TEMPERATURE | SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE
• EARTH SCIENCE | CLIMATE INDICATORS | ATMOSPHERIC/OCEAN INDICATORS | SURFACE SALINITY
• EARTH SCIENCE | OCEANS | OCEAN CIRCULATION | OCEAN CURRENTS
• EARTH SCIENCE | OCEANS | SALINITY/DENSITY | DENSITY
• EARTH SCIENCE | OCEANS | SALINITY/DENSITY | SALINITY
• EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES | MODELS | OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS (OGCM)/REGIONAL OCEAN MODELS
• EARTH SCIENCE | OCEANS | COASTAL PROCESSES
• EARTH SCIENCE | OCEANS | COASTAL PROCESSES | SEA SURFACE HEIGHT

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC): Fields of Research

• Chemical Oceanography
• Physical Oceanography
• Climatology (excl. Climate Change Processes)

Keywords (Theme)

• Z coordinate at grid layer faces
• Latitude at cell centre
• Longitude at cell centre
• Longitude at centre of left face
• Latitude at centre of left face
• Longitude at centre of back face
• Latitude at centre of back face
• Time
• Surface Elevation
• I component of current at left face
• J component of current at back face
• K component of current at cell centre
• Z coordinate at sea-bed at cell centre
• Eastward component of current
• Northward component of current
• Longitude at grid corners
• Latitude at grid corners

AODN Discovery Parameter Vocabulary

• Density of the water body
• Practical salinity of the water body
• Temperature of the water body
• Net heat flux

Language

English

Character encoding

UTF8

Supplemental Information

Oliver, E. C. J., M. Herzfeld and N. J. Holbrook (2016), Modelling the shelf circulation off eastern Tasmania, Continental Shelf Research, 130, pp. 14-33, doi: 10.1016/j.csr.2016.10.005.

Content type

Physical measurement

Name

Z coordinate at grid layer faces

Name

z_centre

Identifier

http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/ULAA

Name

Metres

Name

Latitude at cell centre

Name

y_centre

Name

degrees_north

Name

Longitude at cell centre

Name

x_centre

Name

degrees_east

Name

Longitude at centre of left face

Name

x_left

Name

degrees_east

Name

Latitude at centre of left face

Name

y_left

Name

degrees_north

Name

Longitude at centre of back face

Name

x_back

Name

degrees_east

Name

Latitude at centre of back face

Name

y_back

Name

degrees_north

Name

Time

Name

t

Name

days since 1990-01-01 00:00:00

Name

Surface Elevation

Name

eta

Identifier

http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/ULAA

Name

Metres

Name

I component of current at left face

Name

u1

Identifier

http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UVAA

Name

Metres per second

Name

J component of current at back face

Name

u2

Identifier

http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UVAA

Name

Metres per second

Name

K component of current at cell centre

Name

w

Identifier

http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UVAA

Name

Metres per second

Name

dens

Identifier

http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UKMC

Name

Kilograms per cubic metre

Name

salt

Identifier

http://vocab.aodn.org.au/def/unitsofmeasure/entity/481

Name

Practical Salinity Unit

Name

temp

Identifier

http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UPAA

Name

Degrees Celsius

Name

Z coordinate at sea-bed at cell centre

Name

botz

Identifier

http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/ULAA

Name

Metres

Name

Eastward component of current

Name

u

Identifier

http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UVAA

Name

Metres per second

Name

Northward component of current

Name

v

Identifier

http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UVAA

Name

Metres per second

Name

nhf

Identifier

http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UFAA

Name

Watts per square metre

Name

Longitude at grid corners

Name

x_grid

Name

degrees_east

Name

Latitude at grid corners

Name

y_grid

Name

degrees_north

Distribution format

• NetCDF

OnLine resource

THREDDS catalogue of data files (monthly)

OnLine resource

MATLAB script to extract portions of the data

OnLine resource

ETAS_monthly_url/nhf

Net heat flux - WMS layer

OnLine resource

ETAS_monthly_url/eta

MAP - Surface elevation

OnLine resource

ETAS_monthly_url#file_url

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

Statement

The Sparse Hydrodynamic Ocean Code (SHOC) developed at the CSIRO Marine Laboratories in Hobart (Australia) was used to dynamically simulate variability of the near-shore and continental shelf waters off eastern Tasmania for 1993-2016. SHOC is based on the nonlinear three-dimensional equations for momentum conservation, continuity, and the conservation of heat and salt. The model domain consists of the continental shelf and slope off eastern Tasmania. The domain was defined by a curvilinear horizontal grid with three open boundaries and the fourth side bounded by the Tasmanian coast. The seaward boundary ran parallel to the continental shelf break roughly following the 2500 m isobath. The two cross-shelf boundaries ran perpendicular to the shelf break and met the coast at South Cape in the south and just north of Eddystone Point in the north. The grid included two narrow spurs for the Derwent River and Huon River estuaries. River runoff was included by specifying the flow rate and temperature of freshwater input (zero salinity) every six hours at source points. The model boundary forcing consisted of daily fields of three-dimensional velocities, sea level, temperature and salinity from the 1/10-degree Bluelink ReANalysis (BRAN, version 3, 1/1/1993-31/7/2012) and OceanMAPS analysis (versions 2.0--3.1, 1/8/2012-31/12/2016). The model surface boundary forcing consisted of 6-hourly atmospheric fields provided by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR, 1993-2010) and Climate Forecast System Version 2 analysis (CSFv2, 2011-2016). Daily fields of sea surface height and three-dimensional fields of velocity, temperature, and salinity, were output every day. Extensive model validation has been performed and can be found in: Oliver, E. C. J., M. Herzfeld and N. J. Holbrook (2016), Modelling the shelf circulation off eastern Tasmania, Continental Shelf Research, 130, pp. 14-33, doi: 10.1016/j.csr.2016.10.005.

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Resource scope

Dataset

Title

ISO 19115-3:2018