State and Trends of Australia's Oceans

The Data behind the Report

The role of IMOS as a national research infrastructure is to build large datasets and long time series for use and reuse. The process to produce this report is designed to ensure that datasets and time series available within Australia are organised, analysed, and interpreted so that they can be used in relevant assessment and reporting processes as required. Making our datasets and time series ‘assessment ready’ is part of the IMOS strategy to plan for impact. This includes data collected by IMOS facilities as well as additional data contributed by partners through the Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN).

The table below provides links to the data sets used in the State and Trends of Australia's Oceans Report.

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	Ships of Opportunity	Satellite Remote Sensing	National Mooring Network	Animal Tracking	Ocean Radar	Australian Ocean Data Network	Deep Water Moorings
1.1 Long-term changes in temperature around Australia		Sat	NMN
1.2 Sea Surface Temperature Variability		Sat
1.3 East Australian Current Variability		Sat			Rad		DWM
1.4 Variability in ocean currents around Australia		Sat
1.5 Spatial and temporal trends in concentrations of the nutrients N, P, Si			NMN
1.6 Ocean acidification			NMN
2.1 Spatial and seasonal trends in Chlorophyll a		Sat
2.2 Spatial and seasonal and trends in net primary production		Sat
2.3 Contrasting trends of Australia’s plankton communities			NMN
2.4 The seasons of phytoplankton around Australia		Sat
2.5 Indicators of depth layers important to phytoplankton production			NMN
2.6 Picophytoplankton: harbingers of change in our costal oceans		NMN
2.7 Status of Australian marine microbial assemblages			NMN
3.1 Water clarity around Australia – satellite and in situ observations		Sat	NMN
3.2 Spatial and seasonal trends in Trichodesmium	SOOP		NMN
3.3 Tripos dinoflagellates as indicators of Australian marine bioregions	SOOP		NMN			AODN
3.4 Harmful Algal Blooms and the shellfish industry						AODN
3.5 Harmful Algal Blooms in New South Wales						AODN
3.6 Range expansion of the red tide dinoflagellate Noctiluca scintillans	SOOP		NMN
4.1 The response of the copepod community to long-term warming along the east coast of Australia	SOOP		NMN
4.2 The impact on Zooplankton of 2011 heatwave off Western Australia			NMN
4.3 Use of Zooplankton communities to estimate the relative strength of the East Australian Current	SOOP	Sat
4.4 Ocean acidification and calcifying zooplankton			NMN
4.5 Sounding out life in Australia’s twilight zone	SOOP
4.6 Temporal and spatial changes in larval fish	SOOP		NMN
4.7 Continental-scale shark migrations				Animal
4.8 Tracking elephant seal population trends in the Southern Ocean				Animal

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Richardson A.J, Eriksen R, Moltmann T, Hodgson-Johnston I, Wallis J.R. (2020). State and Trends of Australia’s Ocean Report, Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS).

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