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IMOS - National Mooring Network - Western Australia (WA) Mooring Sub-Facility

Created 24/06/2025

Updated 24/06/2025

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The Western Australia Mooring Sub-Facility is part of the National Mooring Network Facility. The Western Australia moorings sub-facility is responsible for a collection of moorings designed to monitor variability in the Leeuwin Current and continental shelf currents both in terms of along-shore and cross-shore variability. Moorings in the region also monitor processes within the Perth Canyon. The time-series monitoring of physical and biological parameters provided by these moorings supplements past and current research activities in the region based at the CSIRO, the Department of Fisheries WA and Western Australian Universities. The sub-facility currently maintains five regional moorings (four decommissioned) and two National Reference Stations. The regional moorings are located off Perth, clustered near the Perth Canyon and the Two Rocks Line. The Two Rocks Line contains four moorings which transect the continental shelf north of Perth from the 44m to the 500m isobath (the 50m mooring was decommissioned in May 2013, and the 150m mooring in October 2013). Around the Perth Canyon, there remains one shelf mooring in shallower water at the head of the canyon, formerly two slope moorings were located near the 500m isobath (decommissioned in July 2010 and March 2014), to monitor processes in and around the canyon. Primarily these moorings are thermistor strings allowing the structure of the Leeuwin Current to be determined. Two of the moorings also sample biogeochemical parameters.

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Title IMOS - National Mooring Network - Western Australia (WA) Mooring Sub-Facility
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/ba39cd12-1994-466c-ae20-bf4638d3c1b8
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
ming.feng@csiro.au
Reference Period 29/05/2025
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "IMOS - National Mooring Network - Western Australia (WA) Mooring Sub-Facility". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/imos-national-mooring-network-western-australia-wa-mooring-sub-facility