Category: Event Based Sampling
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IMOS is extending our monitoring of extreme marine events
As our oceans continue to change at unprecedented rates, the data collected by IMOS is increasingly important in helping to understand the state and trends of our environment. The impact of natural disasters currently cost the Australian economy at least $38 billion per year and is projected to rise to $73 billion per year by…
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Application of IMOS data to analysis and conclusions in the 2022 IPCC working group II report
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability report was released on 28 February 2022.
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IMOS ocean gliders provided a comprehensive in-situ dataset during the 2020 Great Barrier Reef bleaching event
From mid-November 2019 to late March 2020, IMOS ocean gliders spent 85 days at sea in the central and northern Great Barrier Reef (GBR), traveling a total of 1800 km between Cooktown and Townsville.
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Keeping pace with marine heatwaves
A new paper outlines the need for predicting marine heatwaves and highlights how IMOS is monitoring heatwaves in real time as they develop with ocean gliders.
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IMOS ocean gliders back in the water to observe a marine heatwave near Broome
We deployed our first ocean glider today since the fleet was pulled out of the water in March
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Marine heatwaves – looking under the surface
The new IMOS Event-Based Sampling sub-facility was initiated in December 2018 with the goal of monitoring marine heatwaves using ocean gliders.