Region: Southern Ocean
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Satellite Remote Sensing
Earth observing satellites provide a uniquely efficient means of making repetitive observations automatically over vast areas of the world’s oceans. Although confined to the surface layer, over the past 30 years these observations have been a vital tool for both biological and physical oceanographers and have played a key role in advancing both sciences. Objective…
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Southern Ocean Time Series Observatory
The Southern Ocean is an important part of the global climate system, absorbing carbon dioxide and heat to moderate the earth’s atmosphere. The Southern Ocean Time Series Observatory uses a set of automated moorings to measure these processes under the extreme conditions in the Southern Ocean, where they are most intense and least studied. The…
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Deep Water Moorings
Deep water moorings provide high-quality, high-resolution in-situ information regarding the physical environment in which they are deployed. Unlike when instruments are deployed from research vessels, deep water moorings continuously collect data over long periods of time, providing long-term information about temporal patterns in oceanographic and biological conditions. Locations The IMOS Deep Water Moorings Facility is…
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Southern Ocean Plankton
Phytoplankton play an important role in marine ecosystems, forming the base of pelagic food-webs. The Southern Ocean is changing rapidly in response to changes in climate and climatic processes, with changes in phytoplankton populations and communities having the potential to change ecosystem structure and processes. How it works Sampling of plankton on the large scales…
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Research Vessels Real-Time Air-Sea Fluxes
Air-sea fluxes, the exchange between the atmosphere and the ocean, play an important role in the global climate. Mapping these fluxes is therefore vital to understanding the role of the ocean in climate variability, carbon levels, ecosystems and coastal environments. Research Vessel Real-Time Air-Sea Fluxes uses autonomous instrumentation to monitor important meteorological and ocean surface…
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Sea Surface Temperature Sensors for Australian Vessels
Remotely sensed sea surface temperature data is important for ocean, weather, seasonal and climate models. In order to provide the validation of satellite measured sea surface temperature and ocean models in the Australian region, there is a need for high quality, in situ sea surface temperature observations. Simple hull contact sensors are placed on the…