Darwin Mooring (NRSDAR) Automated Marine Weather And Oceanographic Station

The NRS Darwin mooring (IMOS platform code: NRSDAR), is one of 9 IMOS - ANMN National Reference Station (NRS) designed to monitor oceanographic phenomena in Australian coastal ocean waters. The NRSDAR buoy is deployed at Latitude: -12.3382, Longitude: 130.6952.


The IMOS national reference stations will extend the number of long term time series observations in Australian coastal waters in terms of variables recorded both in their temporal distribution and geographical extent. It will also provide for biological, physical and chemical sampling and for 'ground truth' of remotely sensed observations.

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Date (Revision)
2024-10-17T00:00:00

Publisher

Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) - ()
PRIVATE MAIL BAG 3, TOWNSVILLE MAIL CENTRE
TOWNSVILLE
Queensland
4810
Australia
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Owner

Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) - ()
PRIVATE MAIL BAG 3, TOWNSVILLE MAIL CENTRE
TOWNSVILLE
Queensland
4810
Australia
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Website
AIMS Web Site

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AIMS Web Site

Credit
Australia’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.
Credit
Steinberg, Craig, Mr
Credit
Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)
Status
On going

Principal investigator

Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) - Steinberg, C ()
PRIVATE MAIL BAG 3, TOWNSVILLE MAIL CENTRE
TOWNSVILLE
Queensland
4810
Australia
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Point of contact

Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) - AIMS Data Centre ()
PRIVATE MAIL BAG 3, TOWNSVILLE MAIL CENTRE
TOWNSVILLE
Queensland
4810
Australia
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Temporal resolution
P0Y0M0DT1H0M0S
Topic category
  • Oceans

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Description
Region 1
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Description
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Time position
2015-02-14
Maintenance and update frequency
Continual

Resource constraints

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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License


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Other constraints
Use Limitation: All AIMS data, products and services are provided "as is" and AIMS does not warrant their fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. While AIMS has made every reasonable effort to ensure high quality of the data, products and services, to the extent permitted by law the data, products and services are provided without any warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied, including without limitation any implied warranties of title, merchantability, and fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. AIMS make no representation or warranty that the data, products and services are accurate, complete, reliable or current. To the extent permitted by law, AIMS exclude all liability to any person arising directly or indirectly from the use of the data, products and services.
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Attribution: Format for citation of metadata sourced from Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) in a list of reference is as follows: "Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS). (2020). Northern Australia Automated Marine Weather and Oceanographic Stations, Sites: [Darwin]. https://doi.org/10.25845/5c09bf93f315d, accessed[date-of-access]".
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Content Information

Content type
Physical measurement

Distribution Information

Distributor

Distributor

Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) - AIMS Data Centre ()
PRIVATE MAIL BAG 3, TOWNSVILLE MAIL CENTRE
TOWNSVILLE
Queensland
4810
Australia
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OnLine resource
Data access via Programming API

Data access via Programming API

OnLine resource
Data access using R

Data access using R

OnLine resource
Marine Weather Observations for Darwin

Marine Weather Observations for Darwin

OnLine resource
Darwin National Reference Station Mooring (NRSDAR) AIMS Real Time Data: Darwin National Reference Station Mooring (NRSDAR) AIMS Real Time Data

Darwin National Reference Station Mooring (NRSDAR) AIMS Real Time Data: Darwin National Reference Station Mooring (NRSDAR) AIMS Real Time Data

OnLine resource
Data access via AODN Portal

Data access via AODN Portal

OnLine resource
Biogeochemical water sampling data

Biogeochemical water sampling data

OnLine resource
NetCDF format data available via the IMOS OPeNDAP server

NetCDF format data available via the IMOS OPeNDAP server

OnLine resource
Queensland and Northern Australia sub-facility of the ANMN: National Reference Station - moorings deployment details

Queensland and Northern Australia sub-facility of the ANMN: National Reference Station - moorings deployment details

OnLine resource
IMOS: National Reference Stations

IMOS: National Reference Stations

Resource lineage

Statement
Statement: National Reference Stations: At the Darwin national reference station, a mooring has been deployed with sensors for conductivity, temperature, depth, dissolved oxygen, photosynthetically active radiation (PAR), fluorescence and measurement of turbidity at two depths - near surface and near sea bed. At the seafloor, an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) has been deployed. Reference stations telemeter a reduced data set via Iridium satellite or nextG for real time monitoring. Physical sampling is undertaken at each of the reference stations on a monthly or quarterly basis. The physical samples are analysed for nutrients, plankton species, both visibly and genetically, and pCO2. Biological sampling will greatly improve Australia's capability to meet its obligations for ecosystem based management and allow many researchers the opportunity to investigate possible long term changes in ecology that are likely to be linked to climate variability and wide scale validation of remotely sensed (satellite) observations of plant biomass. Scope Level Description: IMOS Sub-Facility platform level record Current Magnitude data for Darwin were displayed during 2016-07-27 22:19:00+00 2022-05-11 23:39:00+00 with the units k/h and converted to m/s in 2023 to display consistently on the visualisation charts.
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

Metadata

Metadata identifier
9c7a97f2-a06a-446c-9712-c6e719da0d24

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) - AIMS Data Centre
PRIVATE MAIL BAG 3
TOWNSVILLE MAIL CENTRE
Queensland
4810
Australia
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Hours of service
0800 to 1640 UTC+10: Monday to Friday
Parent metadata

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
Point of truth URL of this metadata record

Point of truth URL of this metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2016-11-03T00:00:00
Date info (Revision)
2024-02-15T00:00:00

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3:2018
 
 

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