Brief description
The Deep Water Moorings facility (formerly known as the Australian Bluewater Observing System) provides the coordination of national efforts in the sustained observation of open ocean properties with particular emphasis on observations important to climate studies.This hourly- and depth-gridded product of currents, temperature and salinity (one file per mooring) is produced from individual instrument files collected during five 18-month deployments in the East Australian Current (EAC) off Brisbane, Australia. The collection also includes a product for the National Mooring Network's North Stradbroke Island mooring, and the products at EAC0500 (500m mooring) also include data from the South East Queensland (SEQ) 400m coastal mooring. The data can be used for time series analysis of individual moorings in the EAC deployments.
The observations were made using a range of temperature loggers, conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) instruments and acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs). The data has been interpolated to one-hour intervals and to a fixed set of target depths for each IMOS EAC mooring site. Only good-quality measurements (according to the automated quality-control procedures applied by the National Mooring Network) are included.
This product is independent of the IMOS - Moorings - Gridded time-series product (https://catalogue-imos.aodn.org.au:443/geonetwork/srv/api/records/279a50e3-21a5-4590-85a0-71f963efab82), which is produced from binned data (in time), and utilises all temperature records including ADCP temperatures. The CSIRO gridded product uses only high quality temperature from the Seabird and temperature logger instruments. In addition, where current observations overlap in depth, the data is selected based on a set of criteria as specified in the product documentation.
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Maintenance and Update Frequency: continualIndividual instrument files are screened to remove data flagged as 'bad' (flags 3 & 4). Temperature, salinity and velocity data is put onto a common time grid (hourly) and common depth grid (10m to 400m and 20m from 400m to bottom) using a linear interpolation, for each deployment. Deployments are concatenated together to give one time-continuous dataset for each mooring site. Periods where an instrument fails or data is missing is filled with missing values, and the final variables are TEMP, UCUR, VCUR and PSAL.
Notes
CreditAustralia's Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) is enabled by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). It is operated by a consortium of institutions as an unincorporated joint venture, with the University of Tasmania as Lead Agent.
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Marine National Facility (MNF)
National Environmental Science Program (NESP)
Created: 02 05 2022
Data time period: 2012-04-01
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(Deep Water Moorings Facility page on IMOS website)
uri :
http://imos.org.au/facilities/deepwatermoorings/
(Source code to create gridded per mooring product)
uri :
https://github.com/BecCowley/IMOSMooringGridding
(Procedure to produce gridded individual moorings products)
(Metadata record - CSIRO DAP hourly data product)
handle :
https://hdl.handle.net/102.100.100/439185
(Metadata record - North Stradbroke Island (NSI) Mooring)
(Metadata record - South-East Queensland 400m (SEQ400) Mooring)
(ncUrlList help documentation)
uri :
https://help.aodn.org.au/web-services/ncurllist-service/