AIMS Geonetwork
Rib Reef Deployments of the Wireless Sensor Network
Sensor network infrastructure was installed at Rib Reef in the central Great Barrier Reef off Townsville, Australia. The infrastructure consists of a single 1300 mm buoy located off the north (front) of the reef. The buoy has an Inductive Modem (IM) line that extends from the buoy to the bottom and then along the bottom for around 50 m and then rises to flotation located 9 m below the surface. Instruments are located on this riser to give a profile through the water column.The station is designed to measure temperature of the water column at the front of the reef and in particular to detect upwelling and other events where warmer bottom water is pushed across the shelf onto the reefs. This not only indicates processes operating across the shelf but also conditions when coral bleaching may be more common.
The station is part of a larger network of real time monitoring stations deployed to give real time information about environmental conditions on reefs. This station is located to detect movement of bottom water across the continental shelf and in particular upwelling events pushed from the Coral Sea into the larger lagoon of the Great Barrier Reef. Such events are linked to warm water events on reefs including coral bleaching.
The FAIMMS Project is part of the GBROOS or Great Barrier Reef Ocean Observing System project which in turn is part of the Australian Integrated Marine Observing System or IMOS.
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- 2024-10-17T00:00:00
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- AIMS Web Site
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- WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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- Bainbridge, Scott, Mr (Point Of Contact)
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- On going
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- Oceans
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- 2011-12-22
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- Continual
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- Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License
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- 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). (2009). Northern Australia Automated Marine Weather and Oceanographic Stations, Sites: [Rib Reef]. https://doi.org/10.25845/5c09bf93f315d, accessed[date-of-access]".
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- English
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- Physical measurement
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Marine Weather Observations for Rib Reef
Marine Weather Observations for Rib Reef
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- Statement: All sensors are factory calibrated and serviced every six months.Statement: Data are checked against a set of rules and then flagged using the IODE set of flags.
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- Dataset
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- As needed
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- f81fc09e-a5b9-48c1-8315-975fb6209c7b
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- English
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- 0800 to 1640 UTC+10: Monday to Friday
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- Date info (Creation)
- 2017-01-24T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2019-09-18T00:00:00
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- ISO 19115-3:2018
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