A 1997-1998 modelling project by AGSO, University of Tasmania, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, and a Danish geodetic agency. It uses tidal and swell-wave models to predict sediment mobilisation on the Australian continental shelf. The work was conducted to support the National Ocean's Office regional marine planning process.
Use Cases
- Mapping biological habitats based on predicted sediment mobility regions.
- Assessing seabed stability for marine engineering projects mentioned in the description.
- Modelling pollution dispersal and accumulation patterns on the continental shelf.
- Regional marine planning by overlaying wave and tide threshold exceedence maps.
Strengths
- Model predicts swell wave energy mobilised fine sand over 63.5% of the Australian continental shelf.
- Identified six distinct shelf regions of relative wave and tidal energy, such as wave-dominated and tide-dominated areas.
- Collaborative work involving multiple government and academic institutions.
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.
- Primary data formats are PDF and HTML, which may require extraction for computational analysis.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Collection Method
- Geological-oceanographic computer modelling of tidal currents and swell waves.
- Time Range
- March 1997 to February 1998
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-05 06:16:24.537868; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Australian continental shelf