The Bonney Coast region off Australia features daily sea surface temperature composites derived from hourly Himawari-8 satellite images. The data covers the Austral summer period from November 2016 to March 2017, generated by researchers to overcome cloud contamination issues of earlier sensors. Presented at the 2017 Australian Marine Sciences Association Conference, this study enables quantitative investigation of the upwelling's spatial and temporal dynamics.
Use Cases
- Tracking daily spatial development of coastal upwelling based on sea surface temperature signatures.
- Investigating connectivity between different upwelling features along the Australian coast.
- Analyzing the onset and termination of seasonal upwelling events on a daily scale.
- Comparing the performance of geostationary satellite data against older polar-orbiting sensors for oceanographic studies.
Strengths
- Data uses hourly Himawari-8 images, providing higher temporal resolution than twice-daily MODIS/AVHRR passes.
- Focuses on a key ecological region contributing to Australia's largest fin fish fishery and endangered blue whale feeding grounds.
- Covers an entire upwelling season from November 2016 to March 2017.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data format is PDF, which may not be readily machine-readable for analysis.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Collection Method
- Sea surface temperature daily composites generated from hourly Himawari-8 images using a topographical position index method.
- Time Range
- November 2016 - March 2017
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-16 14:26:17.746002; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Bonney Coast region off Australia, including Kangaroo Island and the Eyre Peninsula.