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Technical Summary Technical summary Queensland and Northern Australia Moorings Instrumentation Great Barrier Reef moorings The Great Barrier Reef Moorings include Lizard Island Slope and Lizard Island Shelf moorings in the north, Myrmidon Reef, Palm Passage and Elusive Reef in the central Great Barrier Reef and in the southern Great Barrier Reef there is Capricorn Channel, Heron North, Heron South, One Tree East. Note that Lizard Island Slope and Shelf moorings, Elusive Reef and Heron North moorings have been discontinued. The Yongala NRS mooring is one of IMOS near-real time moorings and its latest configuration consist of a surface component and a sub-surface component that include: Surface component: - Vaisala sensor to measure wind, precipitation, barometric pressure, temperature, relative humidity - Seabird CTD to measure temperature, conductivity, depth, chlorophyll fluorescence, turbidity, oxygen, light transmission and photosynthetically active radiation. - WQMs with FLNTU sensors measuring fluorescence and turbidity, CTD sensors measuring conductivity temperature and depth and DO sensors measuring dissolve oxygen. Subsurface component: - Seabird sensors to measure temperature, conductivity, depth, fluorescence, turbidity and photosynthetically active radiation. - RDI 600 kHz ADCP to measure currents. Technical summary Queensland and Northern Australia Moorings Instrumentation Great Barrier Reef moorings Schematic of the Yongala mooring surface and subsurface components. Technical summary Queensland and Northern Australia Moorings Instrumentation Great Barrier Reef moorings The Myrmidon Reef mooring latest configuration includes: - WQMs with FLNTU sensors measuring fluorescence and turbidity, CTD sensors measuring conductivity temperature and depth and DO sensors measuring dissolve oxygen. - Seabird temperature and depth recorders. - Wildlife computer satellite trackers. - RDI 75kHz ADCP to measure currents. The Palm Passage mooring is one of IMOS near-real time moorings and its latest configuration consist of: - WQMs with FLNTU sensors measuring fluorescence and turbidity, CTD sensors measuring conductivity temperature and depth and DO sensors measuring dissolve oxygen. - Seabird CTD with FLNTU sensor measuring temperature, conductivity, depth, fluorescence and turbidity. - Seabird temperature and depth recorder. - RDI 300 kHz ADCP to measure currents. Technical summary Queensland and Northern Australia Moorings Instrumentation Great Barrier Reef moorings Schematic of moorings from central and northern GBR region Technical summary Queensland and Northern Australia Moorings Instrumentation Great Barrier Reef moorings The Capricorn Channel mooring latest configuration consist of: - WQMs with FLNTU sensors measuring fluorescence and turbidity, CTD sensors measuring conductivity temperature and depth and DO sensors measuring dissolve oxygen. - Seabird temperature and depth recorders. - Wildlife computer satellite trackers. - RDI 300 kHz ADCP to measure currents. The One tree east mooring latest configuration consist of: - WQMs with FLNTU sensors measuring fluorescence and turbidity, CTD sensors measuring conductivity temperature and depth and DO sensors measuring dissolve oxygen. - Seabird CTD with FLrt, PAR, O2, and TRANS sensors to measure temperature, conductivity, depth, chlorophyll fluorescence, turbidity, oxygen, light transmission and photosynthetically active radiation. - Seabird temperature and depth recorders. - Wildlife computer satellite trackers. - RDI 300 kHz ADCP to measure currents. - Nortek 1 MHzADCP. The Heron South mooring latest configuration consist of: - WQMs with FLNTU sensors measuring fluorescence and turbidity, CTD sensors measuring conductivity temperature and depth and DO sensors measuring dissolve oxygen. - Seabird temperature and depth recorders. - RDI 600 kHz ADCP to measure currents. Technical summary Queensland and Northern Australia Moorings Instrumentation Great Barrier Reef moorings Schematic of moorings from southern GBR region Technical summary Queensland and Northern Australia Moorings Instrumentation Indonesian Throughflow Shelf Moorings he Indonesian Throughflow (ITF) shelf moorings include a set of four moorings along the self: Timor Slope, Margaret Harries Bank, Flat Top Banks and Joseph Bonaparte Gulf. They compliment the Deep Water Moorings Indonesian Throughflow moorings. The Timor South mooring latest configuration consist of: - Several Seabird CTDs to measure temperature, conductivity, depth and one Sebird CTD with sensors to measure fluorescence, turbidity, oxygen, light transmission and photosynthetically active radiation. - Seabird temperature and depth recorders. - Wildlife computer satellite trackers. - RDI 75 kHz ADCP to measure currents. The Margaret Harries Bank mooring latest configuration consist of: - Several Seabird CTDs to measure temperature, conductivity, depth - Seabird temperature and depth recorders. - Wildlife computer satellite trackers. - RDI 150 kHz ADCP to measure currents. Technical summary Queensland and Northern Australia Moorings Instrumentation Indonesian Throughflow Shelf Moorings The Joseph Bonaparte Gulf mooring latest configuration consist of: - WQMs with FLNTU sensors measuring fluorescence and turbidity, CTD sensors measuring conductivity temperature and depth and DO sensors measuring dissolve oxygen. - Seabird CTDs to measure temperature, conductivity, depth, fluorescence, turbidity, oxygen, light transmission and photosynthetically active radiation. - Seabird temperature and depth recorders. - Wildlife computer satellite trackers. - RDI 300 kHz ADCP to measure currents. The Flat Top Banks mooring latest configuration consist of: - Seabird CTDs to measure temperature, conductivity, depth - Seabird temperature and depth recorders. - Wildlife computer satellite trackers. - RDI 150 kHz ADCP to measure currents. Technical summary Queensland and Northern Australia Moorings Instrumentation Indonesian Throughflow Shelf Moorings Schematic of Indonesian Throughflow shelf moorings Technical summary Queensland and Northern Australia Moorings Instrumentation Darwin Port Moorings at this site include the Darwin NRS mooring and a second mooring in the Beagle Gulf recently added (May 2015) to expand our understanding of the factors influencing coastal systems and serve as an early warning system. The Darwin NRS mooring is one of IMOS near-real time moorings and its latest configuration consist of: Surface component - Vaisala sensor to measure wind, precipitation, barometric pressure, temperature, relative humidity. - WQMs with FLNTU sensors measuring fluorescence and turbidity, CTD sensors measuring conductivity temperature and depth and DO sensors measuring dissolve oxygen. Subsurface component - Seabird CTD to measure temperature, conductivity, depth, fluorescence, turbidity, oxygen, light transmission and photosynthetically active radiation. - RDI 600 kHz ADCP to measure currents. Technical summary Queensland and Northern Australia Moorings Instrumentation Darwin Port The second Beagle Gulf mooring configuration consists of: Surface component - Vaisala sensor to measure wind, precipitation, barometric pressure, temperature, relative humidity. - WQMs with FLNTU sensors measuring fluorescence and turbidity, CTD sensors measuring conductivity temperature and depth and DO sensors measuring dissolve oxygen. - Wildlife Computers satellite tracking. Subsurface component - Seabird CTD to measure temperature, conductivity, depth, fluorescence, turbidity, oxygen, light transmission and photosynthetically active radiation. - RDI 600 kHz ADCP to measure currents. Technical summary Queensland and Northern Australia Moorings Instrumentation Darwin Port Schematic of the Darwin NRS mooring Technical summary Queensland and Northern Australia Moorings Instrumentation Northwest Western Australia In May 2011 the West Australian state government funded the deployment of the Kimberley and Pilbara arrays in January and February 2012. The four moorings of the Kimberly array were deployed at 50, 100, 200 and 400m isobars on the continental shelf. The three Pilbara mooring were also deployed on the continental shelf at 50, 100 and 200 isobars. In August 2014 due to the cessation in WA Government funding the Kimberly and Pilbara arrays were removed. Technical summary Queensland and Northern Australia Moorings Deployments Great Barrier Reef Moorings Some of the first moorings to be deployed in the National Mooring Network were four mooring pairs and an additional mooring north of Heron Island in Great Barrier Reef. These nine moorings were deployed over two research cruises between September 2007 and June 2008. The moorings include in the northern Great Barrier Reef the Lizard Island Slope and Shelf moorings, in the central Great Barrier Reef the Myrmidon Reef, Elusive Reef, and Palm Passage, and in the southern Great Barrier Reef the Capricorn Channel, Heron North, Heron South and One Tree East. Initially all current meters were deployed but there were some delays in instrument availability resulting in the Great Barrier Reef moorings not having their full suite of instruments on first deployment. This was rectified in 2009 with all moorings complete and data being downloaded during six monthly servicing. The moorings were consolidated to four pairs of moorings in 2009/10. Once the four pairs of Great Barrier Reef arrays were in place there were some alterations and notable events over the following years. In 2009 Tropical Cyclone Yasi traversed the Coral Sea and passed just to the north
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