Region: Western Australia
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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…
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Sensors on Tropical Research Vessels
AIMS research vessels the RV Solander and the RV Cape Ferguson operate across Australia’s vast tropical waters, including the North West Shelf, Northern Territory, the Gulf of Carpentaria, Torres Strait, and along the Great Barrier Reef. A set of automated sensors are installed on the ships to measure near-surface water properties, including temperature, salinity, chlorophyll…
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Biogeochemical Sensors
Biogeochemical Sensors collect high-quality underway CO2 observations from ships specially fitted with CO2 underway systems. Biogeochemical Sensors increase the spatial coverage of CO2 observations in both Australian waters and the Southern Ocean, complementing data collected by moorings (Acidification Moorings and Southern Ocean Time Series Observatory). How it works IMOS uses ships that routinely undertake the same voyage tracks,…
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Expendable Bathythermographs
Expendable Bathythermographs (XBTs) are single-use instruments that are used to measure temperature profiles of the ocean. XBTs are launched from hand-held units, connected to the XBT itself by a thin copper wire that allows temperature data to be directly transmitted as the XBT sinks (up to 800 m). After the length of the copper wire…
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Ships of Opportunity
The IMOS Ships of Opportunity (SOOP) Facility uses a combination of volunteer commercial and research vessels to collect data relating to physical, chemical and biological oceanography and ecology. As chartered vessels for equipment deployment are expensive and time consuming, the use of volunteer vessels, in addition to equipment especially designed to be deployed efficiently and…
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Animal Tagging
Animal Tagging deploys miniaturised sensors on marine animals to collect oceanographic data from remote and hard-to-access environments. In the Southern Ocean, Weddell and southern elephant seals are equipped with CTD satellite relay data loggers (often including fluorometers which measure ocean productivity), to collect high resolution ocean observations derived from temperature, salinity and depth profiles in…