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Drift bottles and drift cards are two of the oldest methods used to trace ocean currents. Drift bottles were were released by CSIRO's division of Fisheries and Oceanography from various locations along Australia's eastern coast between 1938-40, and off Western Australia between 1954-57. Drift cards have been released from various locations around Australia, and off South Africa since about 1969. The PDF documents under the links section contain most of the information available via the Datacentre, No raw data is associated with this record.Lineage
Progress Code: completedData time period: 1938 to 1985
text: westlimit=20; southlimit=-90; eastlimit=180; northlimit=28
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Map of Drift Card releases off Tasmania west coast 1985 (pdf) - source unknown (Graphics Link)
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https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/download.cfm?file_id=2978![]()
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Aust Fisheries Leaflet No. 3. (Documentation Link)
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https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/download.cfm?file_id=2979![]()
CSIRO information service Sheet No. 16-1 June, 1979 (pdf) (Documentation Link)
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https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/download.cfm?file_id=2980![]()
Measurement of Ocean currents - CSIRO's Drift card Research Programs. R H Austin 1972 (Documentation Link)
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https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/download.cfm?file_id=2981![]()
- Local : Anzlic Identifier: ANZCW0306005967
- Local : Marlin Record Number: 5967
- global : e141f0d2-124f-4141-aae5-74ec8561daa9
