Portobello Marine Laboratory sea surface temperature time series

This table contains the daily sea surface temperature observations taken at the Portobello Marine Laboratory wharf (LAT: -45.8160, LON: 170.6500). The first column is time in MATLAB datenum format. The second column is daily sea surface temperature recorded at 9am local time. Measurements are recorded to an accuracy of \(\pm\)0.1°C. Missing observations have been assigned the value -999. Additional station details and sampling information can be found in Chiswell and Grant (2018).

We acknowledge the foresight and dedication of the founders of this in situ dataset in the 1950s. We are grateful for all the people involved in the data collection. Notably these include

• Doug Mackie (data acquisition and record maintenance)
• Elizabeth (Betty) Batham who championed the long term climate sampling
• All the researchers who have assisted with sampling