Observations of sea level at Port Arthur, Tasmania

Contains observations of sea level at Port Arthur, Tasmania during the period June 1999 to September 2002.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2007-11-15T13:47:00

Principal investigator

Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (ACE CRC) - Hunter, John, Dr (Sea Level Oceanographer)
Purpose
To contribute to the knowledge of past sea level rise in the Southern Hemisphere.
Status
Completed

Principal investigator

Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (ACE CRC) - Hunter, John, Dr (Sea Level Oceanographer)
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University of Tasmania
Hobart
TAS
7001
Australia
Topic category
  • Oceans

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Temporal extent

Time period
1999-06-24T00:00:00 2002-09-20T00:00:00
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

Resource format

Title
Text Files (txt)
Date
Edition
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Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords Version 8.0
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC): Fields of Research
AODN Platform Vocabulary
Keywords (Theme)
  • sea level

Resource constraints

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Unclassified
Classification
Unclassified

Resource constraints

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Website
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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).

Associated resource

Title
Sea level at Port Arthur
Date (Creation)
2011-10-10T00:00:00
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Environment description
Readme file containing information about the data format.
Supplemental Information
Pugh, D., Hunter, J., Coleman, R. and Watson, C., 2002. A comparison of historical and recent sea level measurements at Port Arthur, Tasmania, International Hydrographic Review, Vol. 3, No. 3 (New Series), 27-46. Hunter, J., Coleman, R. and Pugh, D., 2003. The sea level at Port Arthur, Tasmania, from 1841 to the present, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 30, No. 7, 54-1 to 54-4, doi:10.1029/2002GL016813.

Content Information

Content type
Physical measurement
Description
Distance in mm measured DOWNWARDS from tide gauge zero to water surface
Name
sea level

Identifier
http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UXMM
Name
Millimetres

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • Text Files (txt)

Distributor

Principal investigator

Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (ACE CRC) - Hunter, John, Dr (Sea Level Oceanographer)
OnLine resource
DATA ACCESS V1 - Port Arthur mean sea level data [direct download]

OnLine resource
DATA ACCESS V2 - Permanent Service for mean sea level [original format]

OnLine resource
README - data help file document [direct download]

OnLine resource
imas:ACE_JRHunter_Observations_sea_level_portarthur_GV

MAP - site of sea level observations

OnLine resource
imas:ACE_JRHunter_Observations_sea_level_portarthur_GV2

This OGC WFS service returns the data for download in subsettable CSV format.

OnLine resource
View and download this data through the interactive IMAS Data Portal.

Resource lineage

Statement
Location: Port Arthur, Tasmania 43 deg 08 min 50 secs South, 147 deg 51 min 10 sec East Start time: 04:13:51 GMT on 24/6/1999 End time: 04:31:58 GMT on 20/9/2002 Data was recorded using an Aquatrak 4100 acoustic tide gauge mounted in a stilling well with a Vitel WLS2 logger. The data consists of averages taken over three minutes, recorded every six minutes. Data includes the time (as seconds from midnight on 1/1/1999) and sea level (measured downwards from the tide gauge zero). A small correction has been applied to allow for clock drift. There is a small amount (around 0.03%) of missing data. Where data is missing, those records are also missing; i.e. there are no "missing data" flags. The tide gauge zero is 3299.6 mm ABOVE AHD (Tasmania). For information on other local survey marks, see: Watson, C.S., 1999. A Contribution to Absolute Sea Level in Tasmania, B. Surv. (Hons.) thesis, 200 pp., University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Temperature corrections were applied as per: Hunter, J.R., 2003. A note on the temperature correction of the Aquatrak acoustic tide gauge, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., Vol. 20, 1230-1235. Format of data in file present_dat_gmt: First column: time in seconds after 00:00:00 GMT on 1/1/1999 Second column: distance in mm measured DOWNWARDS from tide gauge zero to water surface
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Platform

Identifier

Code
coastal structure

Metadata

Metadata identifier
a9d7c6f0-93fa-11dc-b8ca-00188b4c0af8

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Principal investigator

Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (ACE CRC) - Hunter, John, Dr (Sea Level Oceanographer)

Point of contact

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS) - IMAS Data Manager

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/a9d7c6f0-93fa-11dc-b8ca-00188b4c0af8

Point of truth URL of this metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2021-03-30T21:23:58
Date info (Revision)
2021-03-30T21:23:58

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3:2018
 
 

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Keywords

sea level
AODN Platform Vocabulary
coastal structure
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC): Fields of Research
Physical Oceanography
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords Version 8.0
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