Derwent Estuary Station 3 Temperature and Salinity Profiles (Aug 2012 - Jan 2013)

Derwent Estuary in Australia contains temperature and salinity measurements collected via CTD profiling at a single station. The Australian Ocean Data Network gathered this data between August 2012 and January 2013. The dataset is available in NetCDF and PNG formats.

Use Cases

• Model seasonal water property changes in an estuary based on the six-month time series.
• Analyze the relationship between temperature and salinity in a coastal environment based on the concurrent measurements.
• Validate regional hydrodynamic models using in-situ CTD profile data from a fixed station.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific six-month period from August 2012 to January 2013.
• Measurements are from a fixed geographic location (Station 3, Derwent Estuary).
• Data is available in the structured NetCDF format, which is common for scientific environmental data.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to a single station and a limited time range.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Samples measured from a CTD profile.

Time Range

August 2012 to January 2013

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-05 01:09:52.597086; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Station 3, Derwent Estuary, Australia