IMOS - SOOP-Air Sea Flux (ASF) sub-facility - Meteorological and SST Observations

Enhancement of Measurements on Ships of Opportunity (SOOP)-Air Sea Flux sub-facility collects underway meteorological and oceanographic observations during scientific and Antarctic resupply voyages in the oceans adjacent to Australia. Data product is quality controlled observations. Research Vessel Real Time Air-Sea Fluxes, equips the Marine National Facility (MNF) (Research Vessels Southern Surveyor and Investigator), the Australian Antarctic Division (Research and Supply Vessels Aurora Australis and Nuyina), and Research Vessel Tangaroa with "climate quality" meteorological measurement systems, capable of providing high quality air-sea flux measurements and delivered to researchers on a near real-time basis. Obtaining the full set of air-sea fluxes essential for climate studies requires observations of: wind, air and sea temperature, humidity, pressure, precipitation, long- and short-wave radiation. The existing ship meteorological sensor sets are completed with IMOS instruments and a comprehensive annual calibration program implemented. Data streams are fed into existing ship data management systems, and broadcast via satellite back to Australia routinely. The observations are quality controlled at the Bureau of Meteorology. A daily file of 1-minute averages of the observations are generated shortly after 0000UTC and provided to IMOS.

志愿观测船（Ships of Opportunity, SOOP）海气通量子设施测量增强项目，在澳大利亚周边海域的科学考察与南极补给航行期间，采集走航式气象与海洋学观测数据。其数据产品为经过严格质量控制的观测资料。
船载实时海气通量系统为多型船舶配备了“气候级”气象测量系统：包括澳大利亚国家海洋设施（Marine National Facility, MNF）旗下的“南方考察者号”（Southern Surveyor）与“调查者号”（Investigator）研究船，澳大利亚南极署的“南极光号”（Aurora Australis）与“努伊纳号”（Nuyina）科考补给船，以及“坦加拉号”（Tangaroa）研究船。该系统可提供高质量海气通量测量数据，并以近实时的方式向研究人员推送相关成果。
开展气候研究所需的完整海气通量数据集，需依托以下观测要素：风速、气温、海温、相对湿度、气压、降水、长波辐射与短波辐射。现有船舶气象传感器套件已加装综合海洋观测系统（Integrated Marine Observing System, IMOS）仪器，并配套实施了全面的年度校准流程。
观测数据流将接入现有船舶数据管理系统，并通过卫星定期回传至澳大利亚本土。所有观测数据均由澳大利亚气象局完成质量控制。每日世界协调时（UTC）0000时后不久，系统将生成观测数据的1分钟平均值日文件，并提交给综合海洋观测系统（IMOS）。