Tasmania Tide Monitoring Project
In collaboration with the Tasmanian State Emergency Service, water level monitoring instruments were installed to enable the collection of data in four estuaries identified as being vulnerable to coastal and compound flooding: Derwent Estuary, Huon Estuary, Georges Bay, and Macquarie Harbour. These instruments recorded fluctuations in water levels due to the combined influences of tide, river discharge, and weather events. The effects of the January 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai tsunami following a significant submarine volcanic explosion was also recorded in three out of the four estuaries. The datasets, comprising reduced water level observations, predicted water level, and residuals, are available from the IMAS Data Portal.
Water level observations of varying duration were recorded between November 2020 – November 2022 for 14 sites in four Tasmanian estuaries. This work was undertaken by Karen Palmer as part of a PhD candidature at the University of Tasmania under the supervision of Dr Christopher Watson, Dr John Hunter, Assoc Prof Hannah Power (University of Newcastle), and Dr Rebecca Harris.
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Identification info
- Date (Publication)
- 2023-07-11T00:00:00
- Citation identifier
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doi:10.25959/GEFX-FV62
- Title
- Information and documentation - Digital object identifier system
- Date (Publication)
- 2023-07-20
- Citation identifier
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ISO 26324:2012
- Citation identifier
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https://doi.org/10.25959/GEFX-FV62
Resource provider
Author
- Credit
- Supported by funding provided by the Tasmanian State Emergency Service (SES)
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
- Topic category
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- Oceans
Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2020-11-01 2022-11-30
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- Keywords (Theme)
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- TIDAL PLANES
- TIDAL DATUMS
- TIDAL PROPAGATION
- Global Change Master Directory Earth Science Keywords, Version 8.5
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- SEA LEVEL CHANGE
- EARTH SCIENCE | CLIMATE INDICATORS | ATMOSPHERIC/OCEAN INDICATORS | SEA LEVEL RISE
- EARTH SCIENCE | TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE | SURFACE WATER | SURFACE WATER PROCESSES/MEASUREMENTS | INUNDATION
- EARTH SCIENCE | CLIMATE INDICATORS | ATMOSPHERIC/OCEAN INDICATORS | SEA LEVEL RISE | INUNDATION
- EARTH SCIENCE | OCEANS | TIDES
- EARTH SCIENCE | OCEANS | TIDES | STORM SURGE
- EARTH SCIENCE | OCEANS | COASTAL PROCESSES | STORM SURGE
- EARTH SCIENCE | HUMAN DIMENSIONS | NATURAL HAZARDS | TSUNAMIS
- EARTH SCIENCE | OCEANS | COASTAL PROCESSES | TIDAL HEIGHT
- EARTH SCIENCE | OCEANS | TIDES | TIDAL RANGE
- EARTH SCIENCE | BIOSPHERE | ECOSYSTEMS | MARINE ECOSYSTEMS | ESTUARY
- AODN Discovery Parameter Vocabulary
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- Water Level
- Predicted Water Level
- Residual
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- Data, products and services from IMAS are provided "as is" without any warranty as to fitness for a particular purpose.
Resource constraints
- Other constraints
- This dataset is the intellectual property of the University of Tasmania (UTAS).
Resource constraints
- Linkage
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https://licensebuttons.net/l/by-nc/4.0/88x31.png
License Graphic
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
- Alternate title
- CC-BY-NC
- Edition
- 4.0
- Website
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
License Text
- Other constraints
- Cite data as: Palmer, K. (2023). Tasmania Tide Monitoring Project [Data set]. Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS). https://doi.org/10.25959/GEFX-FV62
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Content Information
- Content type
- Physical measurement
Identifier
- Code
- Water Level
- Name
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WL_AHD
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/ULAA
- Name
- Metres
Identifier
- Code
- Predicted Water Level
- Name
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Predicted
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/ULAA
- Name
- Metres
Identifier
- Code
- Residual
- Name
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Residual
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/ULAA
- Name
- Metres
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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CSV
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CSV
- OnLine resource
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DATA ACCESS - download raw data package (all stations) [.zip]
- OnLine resource
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DATA ACCESS - download full complied dataset via WFS
- OnLine resource
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TECHNICAL REPORT - direct download [pdf]
- OnLine resource
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imas:Palmer_TasTideMonitoring_aggregated_MAP
MAP - Tas Tide Monitoring Project stations
- OnLine resource
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imas:Palmer_TasTideMonitoring
- OnLine resource
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Explore and download data through the IMAS Data Portal.
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Pressure transducers were installed within stilling wells fixed to coastal infrastructure at lower, mid, and upper locations in four estuaries. Absolute pressure was logged to the internal memory at 6-minute intervals. Data were reduced to water levels by removing local barometric pressure data, computing water depth according to estimated local water density, and offset to AHD-TAS83 vertical datum. These gave simultaneous observations relative to the same reference datum of water levels along each estuary system. Tidal planes describing the average water levels along each estuary were computed from predicted water levels obtained by tidal harmonic analysis and peaks and troughs identified in each time series longer than 180 days. Tidal planes are provided in the included technical report.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/f41b5349-1251-4f89-aaf3-46e12d692f1e
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distributor
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Name
- IMAS Dataset level record
- Metadata linkage
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https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/f41b5349-1251-4f89-aaf3-46e12d692f1e
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2023-07-11T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2023-09-19T13:38:44
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018