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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 ... -
Quality assurance and quality control summary of IMOS Bioacoustics sub-Facility data. Version 1.0.
(Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Hobart, Australia, 2022)This document briefly describes quality assurance and quality control procedures followed to generate IMOS Ships of Opportunity Bioacoustics sub-Facility data. Ships of Opportunity is a facility under Australia’s Integrated ... -
Quality control procedure for IMOS real-time meteorological and sea surface observations, and air-sea fluxes from research vessel and mooring platforms.
(Bureau of Meteorology, Docklands, Australia, 2021)This document outlines the automated Quality Control system implemented at the Bureau of Meteorology as part of the Integrated Marine Observing System, to process the real-time marine meteorological and surface ocean ... -
IMOS radiometry community-of-practice document. Version 1.0.
(Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS), Hobart, Australia, 2021)This Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) radiometry community-of-practice document summarises important elements of community-agreed, internationally used, protocols for measurement of radiometric quantities in open ... -
Southern Ocean Time Series (SOTS) Quality Assessment and Control Report. Temperature Records. Version 2.0. 2006-2020.
(Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Hobart, Australia, 2021)This report details the quality control applied to the temperature data collected from the Southern Ocean Time Series (SOTS) moorings between 2006 and 2020. The quality controlled datasets are publicly available via the ... -
IMOS NetCDF Conventions: Conventions and Reference Tables, Version 1.4.2, June 30th 2021.
(Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS), Hobart, Tasmania, 2021)The main purpose of this document is to specify the format of the files that are used to distribute IMOS data, and to document the standards used therein. This includes naming conventions, or taxonomy, as well as metadata ... -
Report on the Quality Control of the IMOS East Australian Current (EAC) Deep Water moorings array. Deployed: April 2012 to August, 2013. Version 3.0.
(Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Hobart, Australia, 2021)This report details the quality control applied to the data collected from the EAC array (deployed from April, 2012 to August, 2013). The quality controlled datasets are publicly available via the AODN Portal. The data ...
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