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FreeResearch InstituteAustralia, Oceania

AODN Portal (Australian Ocean Data Network)

Open gateway to Australian marine and climate science data from IMOS and partners, with catalogue search and download of ocean temperature, salinity, currents and other variables in multiple formats.

portal.aodn.org.au

At a glance

Region
Australia (Oceania)
Coverage
Australia and Southern Ocean
Access
Free
Category
Research Institute
Last updated
2026

What's inside

  • Ocean temperature
  • Salinity
  • Currents
  • Marine

Terms explained

What you can do with it

Typical work that data of this type supports.

  1. 01

    Sea-level planning

    Plan for sea-level rise and storm surge.

    Because it has: Ocean temperature

  2. 02

    Saline intrusion

    Track salt moving into rivers and aquifers.

  3. 03

    Risk screening

    Screen projects and assets for climate risk.

Where AI adds value

Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.

  1. 01

    Surge forecasts

    Forecast surge and coastal water levels quickly.

  2. 02

    Shoreline change

    Detect erosion and accretion from imagery.

  3. 03

    Bias correction

    Correct and downscale climate model output for a site.

Machine access and documentation

Open API

GeoServer WFS/WMS and THREDDS services behind portal

Licence: Open data

Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.

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