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⇒ IMOS: Integrated Marine Observing System
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Since 2006, IMOS has been routinely operating a wide range of observing equipment throughout Australia’s coastal and open oceans, making all of its data accessible to the marine and climate science community, other stakeholders and users, and international collaborators.
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Ghosts in the data: false detections in VEMCO pulse position modulation acoustic telemetry monitoring equipment
(2015)False-positive data (better known as "false detections") in VEMCO VR2 acoustic telemetry monitoring studies that use pulse position modulation coding can cause biased or erroneous outcomes in data analysis. To understand ... -
Quality Control procedures for IMOS Ocean Radar Manual, Version 3.0.
(Integrated Marine Observing System, Hobart, Australia, 2024)The IMOS Ocean Radar Facility Quality-Control and Data User’s Manual is a comprehensive guide designed for individuals utilizing the Facility's data. A crucial element within Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System ... -
Delayed Mode QA/QC Best Practice Manual Version 3.1
(Integrated Marine Observing System, Hobart, Australia, 2023)This document is the IMOS Ocean Gliders (formerly known as Australian National Facility for Ocean Gliders (ANFOG)) Best Practice manual for delayed mode processed data. IMOS Ocean Gliders is a facility under Australia’s ... -
Validation of Himawari-8 Sea Surface Temperature Retrievals Using Infrared SST Autonomous Radiometer Measurements
(2023)This study has evaluated five years (2016–2020) of Himawari-8 (H8) Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Level 2 Pre-processed (L2P) data produced by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (Bureau) against shipborne radiometer SST ... -
GHRSST compliant AVHRR SST products over the Australian region
(2017)The Australian Bureau of Meteorology produces a Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) compliant Sea Surface Temperature (SST) dataset over the Australian region, based on direct measurements from ... -
NRMN Database QA/QC Protocols. Version 1.4
(Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS), Hobart, Australia, 2023)This document describes the management and QA/QC processes for the National Reef Monitoring Network data. The NRMN provides publicly accessible data for shallow reef biodiversity on a global scale, integrating high quality ... -
Australian XBT Quality Control Cookbook Version 2.1.
(CSIRO, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 2023)Expendable Bathythermographs (XBTs) have been used for many years by oceanographers to measure the temperature of the upper ocean. These instruments are simple devices which are designed to be deployed from moving vessels, ... -
Australian Wave Buoy Operations and Data Management Guidelines.
(Integrated Marine Observing System, Hobart, Australia, 2023)This is a reference and guidance document for existing and prospective wave buoy operators and wave buoy data users in Australia. The document outlines wave buoy instruments most commonly in use and the wave data types and ... -
National Reference Stations Biogeochemical Operations Manual. Version 4.
(Integrated Marine Observng Ststem, Hobart, Australia, 2023)This manual outlines best-practice techniques in biogeochemical and blue-water oceanography for ensuring the output of reliable, quality data to the end-user community. The aim is for sampling, analytical, and reporting ... -
Report on the Quality Control of the IMOS East Australian Current (EAC) Deep Water moorings array. Deployed: May 2021 to July 2022. Version 1.1.
(Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Hobart, Australia, 2023)The East Australian Current (EAC) is a complex and highly energetic western boundary system in the south-western Pacific off eastern Australia. It provides both the western boundary of the South Pacific gyre and the ... -
Report on the Quality Control of the IMOS East Australian Current (EAC) Deep Water moorings array. Deployed: September 2019 to May 2021. Version 1.1.
(Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Hobart, Australia, 2023)The East Australian Current (EAC) is a complex and highly energetic western boundary system in the south-western Pacific off eastern Australia. It provides both the western boundary of the South Pacific gyre and the ... -
Report on the Quality Control of the IMOS East Australian Current (EAC) Deep Water moorings array. Deployed: April/May 2018 to September, 2019. Version 1.4.
(Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Hobart, Australia, 2023)The East Australian Current (EAC) is a complex and highly energetic western boundary system in the south-western Pacific off eastern Australia. It provides both the western boundary of the South Pacific gyre and the ... -
Report on the Quality Control of the IMOS East Australian Current (EAC) Deep Water moorings array. Deployed: November 2016 to May 2018. Version 2.0.
(Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Hobart, Australia, 2022)The East Australian Current (EAC) is a complex and highly energetic western boundary system in the south-western Pacific off eastern Australia. It provides both the western boundary of the South Pacific gyre and the ... -
Report on the Quality Control of the IMOS East Australian Current (EAC) Deep Water moorings array. Deployed: May 2015 to November 2016. Version 3.2.
(Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Hobart, Australia, 2022)The East Australian Current (EAC) is a complex and highly energetic western boundary system in the south-western Pacific off eastern Australia. It provides both the western boundary of the South Pacific gyre and the ... -
Southern Ocean Time Series (SOTS) Quality Assessment and Control Report. Salinity Records 2009-2020. Version 2.0
(Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Hobart, Australia, 2022)The Southern Ocean Time Series (SOTS) Observatory located near 141°E and 47°S provides high temporal resolution observations in Subantarctic waters. It is focused on the Subantarctic Zone because waters formed at the ... -
IMOS Ship of Opportunity (SOOP) Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) realtime data delivery.
(CSIRO/IMOS, Hobart, Tasmania, 2022)Document describes the delivery of eXpendable Bathythermograph (XBT) data in realtime to the Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN) and the GTS (global telecommunications system). -
Refining instrument attachment on phocid seals.
(2011)This document briefly presents information on the performance of three different, widely used, epoxies to determine whether any of them might cause burns in Weddell and southern elephant seals via exothermic chemical ... -
Southern Ocean Time Series (SOTS) Quality Assessment and Control Report. Oxygen Records 2009-2021. Version 1.0
(Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Hobart, Australia, 2023)This report details the quality control (QC) procedures applied to oxygen data collected from the Southern Ocean Time Series (SOTS) moorings between 2009 and 2021. These measurements help to quantify net community production ... -
Effects of age, size and condition of elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) on their intravenous anaesthesia with tiletamine and zolazepam.
(2002)Southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) were caught as part of a long-term demographic study on Macquarie Island. Over 18 months, 1033 seals were caught by hand and anaesthetised intravenously with a 1:1 mixture of ... -
IMOS Ship SST for Satellite SST Validation.
(GHRSST Project Office, Qingdao, China, 2018)We report on the Australian Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) ship SST data sets – nine years of in situ subsurface “SSTdepth” and two years of ship-based remotely sensed “SSTskin” quality-assured observations from ...
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