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Terms & Conditions of Use
Please note that any products available from this site are only made available on the basis that users are fully aware that the products are subject to this disclaimer and the Bureau's copyright and disclaimer notice below.
Any applications of these products by third parties to provide value-added products and services of commercial value will be subject to Intellectual Property (IP) considerations. In addition, products from the Bluelink system, that do not fall within the Basic Oceanographic Product set, that is products that involve value adding will also be subject to IP considerations.
If any commercial applications being considered please contact oceanservices@bom.gov.au
Data Acknowledgments
The Bureau of Meteorology gratefully acknowledge the following institutions and data products that have been used to develop the system:
- Bluelink project partners - CSIRO and RAN
Ocean General Circulation Model:
- Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Modular Ocean Model version 5
Topography:
The topography for OceanMAPSv4.0i is derived from the 30 arc-second GEBCO 08 topography (www.bodc.ac.uk/data/online_delivery/gebco/) for most of the world, and a 9 arc-second topography produced by Geoscience Australia (Whiteway, 2009).
Satellite remote sensing:
- RADS Jason-3, CryoSat-2, SARAL, Sentinel 3A, Sentinel 3B and Sentinel 6
- AMSR-2, AMSR-2, NPP and NOAA VIIRS, NAVOCEANO SST
Real-time in situ observations:
These are data made freely available from a large number of sources, through mechanisms such as the Global Telecommunications System of the World Meteorological Organization. For Bluelink they include specifically observations made by:
- Autonomous profiling floats (Argo)
- Expendable bathythermograph (XBT)
- Conductivity Temperature Depth (CTD)
- TAO/TRITON array
Technical Specifications
The Bluelink Ocean Forecasts are produced by the Ocean Model, Analysis and Prediction System version 4 (OceanMAPSv4.0i). See the OceanMAPS v4.0i technical specification
