Enhanced Measurements from Ships of Opportunity (SOOP)

Building upon existing programs, this facility will implement a set of integrated, repeat underway observing systems on volunteer ships in Australian regional seas that link physical, chemical and biological oceanography. The target regions are the boundary current systems off Eastern and Western Australia , the Southern Ocean, the shelf seas across northern Australia , and the Great Barrier Reef . The observations will span spatial scales from eddies to basin width and timescales from seasonal to decadal.