AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Australian_Bathymetry_Topography WMS

In 2005 Geoscience Australia and the National Oceans Office undertook a joint project to produce a consistent, high-quality 9 arc second (0.0025 decimal degree (dd) or ~250m at the equator) bathymetric grid for Australian waters. In 2009 a number of new datasets were included in an updated version of the grid.
, The 2009 bathymetric grid of Australia was produced to include recently acquired datasets, and solutions to issues identified in the previous version. The revised grid has the same extents as its 2005 counterpart, including the Australian water column jurisdiction lying between 92o E and 172o E, and 8o S and 60o S. The waters adjacent to the continent of Australia and Tasmania are included, as are areas surrounding Macquarie Island, and the Australian Territories of Norfolk Island, Christmas Island, and Cocos (Keeling) Islands. The area selected does not include Australia's marine jurisdiction offshore from the Territory of Heard and McDonald Islands and the Australian Antarctic Territory.
, As per the 2005 grid, the 0.0025 dd resolution is only supported where direct bathymetric observations are sufficiently dense (e.g. where swath bathymetry data or digitised chart data exist) (Webster and Petkovic, 2005). In areas where no sounding data are available (in waters off the Australian shelf), the grid is based on the 2 arc minute ETOPO (Smith and Sandwell, 1997) and 1 arc minute ETOPO (Amante and Eakins, 2008) satellite derived bathymetry. The topographic data (on shore data) is based on the revised Australian 0.0025dd topography grid (Geoscience Australia, 2008), the 0.0025dd New Zealand topography grid (Geographx, 2008) and the 90m SRTM DEM (Jarvis et al, 2008).

You can also purchase hard copies of Geoscience Australia data and other products at http://www.ga.gov.au/products-services/how-to-order-products/sales-centre.html

Tags: Bathymetry, Earth Sciences, Oceans, Web Service, marine_coastal
Organization: Geoscience Australia
Australian_Bathymetry_Topography WCS

In 2005 Geoscience Australia and the National Oceans Office undertook a joint project to produce a consistent, high-quality 9 arc second (0.0025 decimal degree (dd) or ~250m at the equator) bathymetric grid for Australian waters. In 2009 a number of new datasets were included in an updated version of the grid.
, The 2009 bathymetric grid of Australia was produced to include recently acquired datasets, and solutions to issues identified in the previous version. The revised grid has the same extents as its 2005 counterpart, including the Australian water column jurisdiction lying between 92o E and 172o E, and 8o S and 60o S. The waters adjacent to the continent of Australia and Tasmania are included, as are areas surrounding Macquarie Island, and the Australian Territories of Norfolk Island, Christmas Island, and Cocos (Keeling) Islands. The area selected does not include Australia's marine jurisdiction offshore from the Territory of Heard and McDonald Islands and the Australian Antarctic Territory.
, As per the 2005 grid, the 0.0025 dd resolution is only supported where direct bathymetric observations are sufficiently dense (e.g. where swath bathymetry data or digitised chart data exist) (Webster and Petkovic, 2005). In areas where no sounding data are available (in waters off the Australian shelf), the grid is based on the 2 arc minute ETOPO (Smith and Sandwell, 1997) and 1 arc minute ETOPO (Amante and Eakins, 2008) satellite derived bathymetry. The topographic data (on shore data) is based on the revised Australian 0.0025dd topography grid (Geoscience Australia, 2008), the 0.0025dd New Zealand topography grid (Geographx, 2008) and the 90m SRTM DEM (Jarvis et al, 2008).

You can also purchase hard copies of Geoscience Australia data and other products at http://www.ga.gov.au/products-services/how-to-order-products/sales-centre.html

Tags: Earth Sciences, Oceans, Web Service, bathymetry, marine_coastal
Organization: Geoscience Australia
Australian bathymetry and topography grid (Geoscience Australia)

In 2005 Geoscience Australia and the National Oceans Office undertook a joint project to produce a consistent, high-quality 9 arc second (0.0025° or ~250m at the equator) bathymetric grid for Australian waters. 

The 2009 bathymetric grid of Australia has been produced to include new datasets available, and to provide a grid that fixes issues identified in the previous version. The revised grid has the same extents as its 2005 counterpart, including the Australian water column jurisdiction lying between 92° E and 172° E, and 8° S and 60° S. The waters adjacent to the continent of Australia and Tasmania are included, as are areas surrounding Macquarie Island, and the Australian Territories of Norfolk Island, Christmas Island, and Cocos (Keeling) Islands.  The area selected does not include Australia's marine jurisdiction off of the Territory of Heard and McDonald Islands and the Australian Antarctic Territory.

The Australian 9" DEM was used as the topographic dataset for the Australian Continent and surrounding islands. The 250m New Zealand DEM was sourced from Geographx (NZ) Ltd (2008) in Ascii format, non-projected, NZ Mercator datum. The 90m Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) DEM was sourced for the southern areas of Papua New Guinea and Indonesia from the CGIAR Consortium for Spatial Information (CIGAR-CSI) in the WGS84 datum in the ASCII format.

© Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2009.

Tags: Bathymetry, Land Surface, Oceans, Terrain Elevation, Topography
Organization: Australian Institute of Marine Science
Australian seismological report, 1990

This report contains information on earthquakes of Richter magnitude 3 or greater that were reported in the Australian region during 1990. It is the eleventh of an annual series compiled by the Australian Geological Survey Organisation (AGSO), using data from AGSO and various seismological agencies in Australia. Its purposes are to aid the study of earthquake risk in Australia, and to provide information on Australian and world earthquakes for scientists, engineers and the general public.

The report has six main sections: Australian region earthquakes; Isoseismal maps; Network operations; Accelerograph data; Principal world earthquakes; and Monitoring of nuclear explosions.

You can also purchase hard copies of Geoscience Australia data and other products at http://www.ga.gov.au/products-services/how-to-order-products/sales-centre.html

Tags: Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Record, earthquakes, marine
Organization: Geoscience Australia
Australian bathymetry and its derivatives

These data were derived from the Australian Bathymetry database held at Geoscience Australia. The dataset comprises depth, seabed morphometric parameters: slope, aspect, topographic relief and rocky layer, and geomorphic features.

You can also purchase hard copies of Geoscience Australia data and other products at http://www.ga.gov.au/products-services/how-to-order-products/sales-centre.html

Tags: Bathymetry Grid, Marine Data, Marine Geoscience, National dataset, bathymetry, marine, morphology
Organization: Geoscience Australia
Australian Baseline Sea Level Monitoring Project: Cape Ferguson Station

The National Tidal Centre maintains a SEAFRAME (SEA-Level Fine Resolution Acoustic Measuring Equipment) station at Cape Ferguson as part of an array of fourteen standard stations, and two supplementary stations (Lorne and Stony Point), which are owned by port operators. 

The equipment provides accurate measurements of sea level as well as recording meteorological parameters (water temperature, air temperature, barometric pressure, wind direction, wind gust and wind speed). These data are available online.

Tags: Air Temperature, Atmosphere, Atmospheric Temperature, Barometric pressure, Ocean Temperature, Oceans, Sea Level, Tide Gauge, Water Temperature, Weather station, Wind direction, Wind gust, Wind speed
Organization: Bureau of Meteorology
AusTender Open Approaches to Market

In accordance with the Commonwealth Procurement Rules, Commonwealth Government agencies are required to publish open Approaches to Market (ATMs) on AusTender www.tenders.gov.au.  This is the set of all open ATMs published on AusTender from 1 January 2013 to 30 June 2014.

Further information is available from the AusTender Help Desk on 1300 651 698 or tenders@finance.gov.au.

Organization: Department of Finance
AusTender Contract Notice Export

    

The Contract Notice Export is an export file containing contract notice data
for all Australian Government agencies who report procurement on AusTender
published over a one week period.  new Contract Notice Export file is
available for download from AusTender every Sunday. Contract Notice Export
files remain available on AusTender for a period of eighteen (18) months.

You can find the historical contract data dating back to 1999 at
[http://data.gov.au/dataset/historical-australian-government-contract-
data/](http://data.gov.au/dataset/historical-australian-government-contract-
data/)

**Please note that the data contained within each CN Export file is correct at the time of extraction. Data may change over time as agencies undertake data quality assurance processes or as contract information is varied. Please refer to the tenders website below for the latest of each week.**

**Note: **As part of the implementation of the new Commonwealth Procurement Rules (CPRs), Procurement Method descriptions for Contract and Standing Offer Notices reported on AusTender changed, effective 1 July 2012. Open, Select and Direct are now Open Tender, Prequalified Tender, and Limited Tender, respectively. For Contract Notice Export files extracted prior to 1 July 2012, Procurement Method descriptions are unchanged.

Source of information at [http://www.tenders.gov.au/?event=public.reports.lis
tCNWeeklyExport](http://www.tenders.gov.au/?event=public.reports.listCNWeeklyE
xport)

**UPDATE:** Now below is also the current list of goods and services category codes used by Australian Government agencies to code their open approaches to market and contracts awarded for publication on AusTender. The codeset is a subset of the United Nations Standard Product and Services Code (UNSPSC) and is reviewed and updated periodically. Code numbers starting with the prefixes **43 a Information Technology, Broadcasting and Telecommunications** and **81 a Engineering and Research and Technology Based Services** apply in the main to Information and Communications Technology related contracts, primarily ICT goods and services respectively.

_Please note: we will make an API available to this dataset in the near
future_.



Organization: Department of Finance
AUSNUT 2011–13

AUSNUT (AUStralian Food and NUTrient Database) is our series of survey specific nutrient databases that support national nutrition surveys. Foods and nutrients vary according to survey requirements and reflect foods as consumed. Each food has a complete nutrient profile for a specific set of nutrients and as such the derivation of the data varies.

Tags: Health, National Nutrition Survey, Nutrient database
Organization: Food Standards Australia New Zealand  (FSANZ)
Ausgrid Average Electricity Use – 2010

    

Ausgrid is providing the following data on electricity consumption within our
network area for the 2009/2010 financial year to be used in developing
applications. The data is from customer billing data and grouped by local
government areas (LGA) in Ausgridas network.

Average electricity consumption by geographic area can vary significantly due
to a number of factors. These include differences in climate, the use of
natural gas, the type of housing (house or apartment), type of business
(commercial or industrial), and varying household socio-demographics or
business types.

These figures also do not necessarily include the electricity used in common
areas of apartments like halls, garages or pools. About 20% of energy in an
apartment building is typically used in these sorts of areas.

This data does not include high voltage customers and supply to services such
as public lighting and bus shelters.

For help in interpreting the data, please contact
[sharinginformation@ausgrid.com.au](mailto:sharinginformation@ausgrid.com.au).



Tags: ausgrid, electricity, energy
Organization: Ausgrid
AuSEABED

The auSEABED was created by Dr. Chris Jenkins, a former staff member of School of Geoscience, to describe the materials of the Australian Maritime Region - in all, an area comprising 1/12 of the earth's globe. Because of Australia's relatively small population base and inadequate funding for at-sea science, maximum use of existing data had to be made to achieve a workable mapping. This motivated research into the use of datasets that were diverse in their methods, navigation, technologies, aims, standards,  formats - and whether numeric or linguistic. The research resulted in a data mining system designed especially for the seabed.
These web pages describe the digital GIS coverages that are now available for the seabed materials of the Australian maritime areas.

Tags: Barrier Islands, Bathymetry, Coastal Processes, Marine Sediments, Oceans, Seafloor Topography, Sediment Characteristics, Sediment Composition, Sediment Grain Size
Organization: University of Sydney
Aurora Australis Voyage 1 2015/16 Track and Underway Data

On every voyage of the Aurora Australis, approximately 50 onboard sensors collect data on average every 10 seconds.  These data are known as the underway datasets.  The type of data collected include water and air temperature, wind speeds, ship speed and location, humidity, fluorescence, salinity and so on.  For the full list of available data types, see the website.
    
These data are broadcast "live" (every 30 minutes) back to Australia and are available via the Australian Oceanographic Data Centre's portal (see the provided link).  Once the ship returns to port, the data are then transferred to Australian Antarctic Division servers where they are then made available via the Marine Science Data Search system (see the provided URL).

This dataset contains the underway data collected during Voyage 1 of the Aurora Australis Voyage in the 2015/16 season.

Purpose of voyage: Davis Resupply (Mawson pax by air via Davis)

Leader: Ms. Leanne Millhouse
Deputy Leader: Mr. Mick Stapleton

Underway (meteorological) data are available online via the Australian Antarctic Division Data Centre web page (or via the Related URL section).

Tags: AMD, CEOS, ECHO SOUNDERS, MARINE, METEOROLOGY, SHIPS
Organization: Australian Antarctic Division
Atlas of Australian Marine Fishing and Coastal Communities

The Atlas of Australian Marine Fishing and Coastal Communities is the first Australia-wide, comprehensive and authoritative mapping initiative presenting an overview of Australian fishing activities and coastal communities. The Atlas shows where fish are caught in Australia's oceans, the value of those catches, where different fishing gears are used and the species that are taken. It provides public information on spatial distribution of commercial fisheries catch. It also provides information on the socio-economic characteristics of coastal communities in eight Marine Regions around Australia. Data are available by species (or species combination), fishing method and year, complete for the period 2000 to 2002.

Tags: Agricultural Aquatic Sciences, Agriculture, Australian Fisheries, Fisheries, Indigenous Fisheries, Region
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
A systematic review of literature that assess the effects of sewage disposal on soft sediment assemblages.

This review was a synthesis of studies that monitored the effects of sewage disposal in the marine environment. Twenty studies that were conducted between 1973 and 1997 and met specific design requirements (i.e. no confounding factors, appropriate replication) were included in the review. 

Background data relating to discharge type, quantity, level of detail and sampling procedures of the investigation in each study were collated. Any impact that was detected was recorded for each endpoint. The magnitude of change or effect size was calculated for each study and was defined as the percent change at the impact site relative to the control sites. 

There were some consistencies in the monitoring strategies and benthic responses between studies in different areas. Multivariate indicators and population level analyses were the most sensitive measures for detecting sewage related impacts. Abundance usually increased at outfall sites relative to controls (30-250% magnitude of change) while species richness, diversity and evenness tended to decrease (16-90% magnitude of change). The geographic extent of the studies were limited to temperate regions except for 1 study that was conducted in Antarctica.

Tags: Aquatic Habitat, Benthic Habitat, Biosphere, Community Structure, Ecological Dynamics, Environmental Impacts, Eutrophication, Human Dimensions, Invertebrates, Marine Biology, Marine Invertebrates, Oceans, Predation, Sewage, Trophic Dynamics, Zoology, effluent, infauna, mudflat, predation, resource enhancement, shorebirds, soft sediment
Organization: Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DEWLP), Victorian Government
A survey of the breeding seabirds and migratory shorebirds of the Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia

A complete survey of the numbers and breeding stages of seabirds, resident and migratory shorebirds and raptors at the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, central west coast, Western Australia, was undertaken. One hundred and ninety two (192) islands, islets and rocks were surveyed over 21 days in December 2006.

Seabird nesting habitat was mapped in its entirety for those islands considered as significant breeding areas (i.e. Pelsaert Island, Leo Island) and estimates of both breeding and roosting seabirds were made for each island. Notes on the stage of breeding were also taken, and where applicable, eggs were measured and weighed for some species to
obtain breeding dates. Monitoring transects were established on West Wallabi and Pelsaert Islands to monitor longer term changes in the nesting density of the Wedge-tailed Shearwater Ardenna pacifica, Lesser Noddy Anous tenuirostris melanops, Common (Brown) Noddy Anous stolidus and Sooty Tern Onychoprion fuscata. The Lesser Noddy transects
had been previously established by Fuller and Burbidge (1992), and were used again for comparative purposes.

We recorded 14 species of seabirds, 16 species of migratory shorebirds, three resident shorebirds and two raptors during this survey. Of these, 14 species of seabirds, three resident shorebirds and the two raptors were breeding. These breeding populations are considered significant in a regional and national context. Of the 192 islands surveyed, 148 (77%) had breeding seabirds.

Tags: Biological Surveys, Breeding, Field Surveys, Long-term Monitoring, Marine Biology, Marine Birds, Oceans, Seabirds, Shorebirds
Organization: Halfmoon Biosciences
A survey of limpets on an intertidal rocky shore in Western Port Bay, Victoria

This data set is from a survey comparing the size and shape of limpets in the high intertidal zone compared to the low intertidal zone on a rocky shore in Western Port Bay, Victoria. On 10 sampling occasions from April to October 1987 the length, width, height, distance from apex to the posterior margin, distance from apex to the anterior margin and the number of ridges of 350 limpets were measured in both zones. The tenacities of individual limpets in the 2 zones were collected in September and October 1987. Tenacity was measured with a hand-held device that applied a horizontal force until the limpet was detached from the substrate.

Tags: 24 488001, Aquatic Habitat, Benthic Habitat, Biosphere, Coastal Habitat, Ecological Dynamics, Griffith Point, Marine Biology, Marine Invertebrates, Oceans, Population Dynamics, San Remo, Siphonaria diemenensis, Victoria, Western Port Bay, limpet, rocky intertidal
Organization: School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne
Assimilation of Satellite Observations into Coastal Biogeochemical Models

This thesis investigates the improvement of forecasting water temperature in a coastal embayment through the assimilation of satellite sea surface temperature (SST).  Port Phillip Bay (PPB) in southeastern Australia was used as a case study, where temperature forecasts could be compared against in situ temperature measurements. Over the long term satellite derived SST observations were found to have negligible bias, however a strong diurnal bias was apparent.  The  model of PPB replicated the main features of PPB well, although the temperature prediction was warm biased. 

The actual assimilation of SST data was contrasted against a climatology forecast of PPB temperature.  The assimilation of SST, without any specific accounting for the diurnal bias improved the forecast, although errors due to observational bias were noted.  Attempts to remove this bias using diurnal correction algorithms failed, owing to a larger than expected cool skin. Conditional merging, which combines spatial and in situ observations, was applied to the SST observations and improved forecast accuracy by reducing the observation bias. This work demonstrates that forecasting models can be improved through the assimilation of satellite derived observations. An examination of the assimilation innovations indicated where the forecast accuracy could be further improved.

Tags: Aquatic Habitat, Bathymetry, Biosphere, Coastal Habitat, Hydrosphere, Ocean Circulation, Ocean Currents, Ocean Mixed Layer, Ocean Temperature, Oceans, Port Phillip Bay, Potential Temperature, Salinity, Sea Surface Temperature, Seafloor Topography, Surface Water, Tidal Currents, Tides, Water Temperature
Organization: Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University