Beagle Gulf Salinity Measurements from May 2015 to July 2017

From 24 May 2015 to 16 July 2017, salinity data was collected in the Beagle Gulf. The dataset was gathered by the National Reference Stations (NRS), a sub-facility of the Australian National Moorings Network (ANMN) within the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS). It is hosted by the Australian Ocean Data Network.

Use Cases

• Modeling coastal oceanographic processes based on the time-series salinity data.
• Analyzing seasonal and interannual salinity variability in the Beagle Gulf.
• Validating regional hydrodynamic models based on the in-situ mooring observations.
• Studying the impact of freshwater inputs and evaporation on gulf salinity.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific, multi-year time range from May 2015 to July 2017.
• Collected by the authoritative Australian National Moorings Network (ANMN) facility.
• Part of the national-scale Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) project.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Collected by moorings from the National Reference Stations (NRS) sub-facility.

Time Range

24 May 2015 to 16 July 2017

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-28 15:13:52.404414; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Beagle Gulf, Australia