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RAN Directorate of Oceanography and Meteorology

Node type

Commonwealth government

Node description

The Royal Australian Navy Directorate of Oceanography and Meteorology (DOM) is responsible for the collection, management and distribution of meteorological and oceanographic information to enable the Australian Defence Force to exploit the above and below water physical operating environments for strategic, operational and tactical advantage and satisfy national and international obligations to manage oceanographic data.

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• Server hostname: grey-2.metoc.gov.au
• Server port: 5550
• Repository name: pages_xml

Bounding coordinates

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• North bounding coordinate: 40
• South bounding coordinate: -80
• East bounding coordinate: 20
• West bounding coordinate: -120

Top search terms

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oceanography, meteorology, marine, sea surface temperature, salinty, wave height, turbidity, bioluminescence, sea bed composition, currents, wind speed

References

• Home: http://www.metoc.gov.au/

Description of the organisation/jurisdiction

The RAN-DOM Oceanographic Data Centre is responsible for providing non real-time data, specialised datasets and information products in support of maritime activities of the ADF. It is also responsibilities for the quality control, archive and management of oceanographic data collected by ADF units.

Contact details

• Contact organisation: Directorate of Oceanography and Meteorology
• Postal address: Maritime Headquarters, Wylde Street
• City: Potts Point
• State: NSW
• Postal code: 2011
• Telephone: 02 9359 3141
• Facsimile: 02 9359 3120

Metadata date

2005-10-05