The Australian Bureau Of Meteorology - Australian Gridded Intensity, Frequency, Duration Datasets (BOM - IFD) for a 100 year return interval. IFD datasets contain rainfall statistics, with the CSIRO Archive having data for 2, 24 & 72 hour periods at .05° resolution for the South East Australia region covering New South Wales and Victoria. IFD datasets are commonly used in Climate change studies, for design and risk assessment of dams and bridges, design of roof and stormwater drainage systems, flood plain management, soil conservation studies and to express the "severity" of a single rainfall event (in terms of its rarity). The process of estimating IFDs, known as frequency analysis, is an important part of hydrological design procedures. An analysis of rainfall data from a single station is often unreliable; not temporally or spatially consistent; and should generally not be used for design purposes. Instead a set of accurate, consistent IFD data was derived for the whole of Australia by the Bureau of Meteorology as part of the revision of Australian Rainfall and Runoff with the Institute of Engineers Australia(1987). INTENSITY is the rainfall rate (in mm per hour), FREQUENCY is how often a type of rainfall event will occur and DURATION is the period of time over which the rain is measured. There are 3 files covering the 2, 24, 72 hr periods (each ~1.03MB) in Ascii Arcg format totaling approximately 3.11 MB.
This dataset consists of sea mullet tagging log sheets from 1954 to 1956 and tag recovery log sheets from 1954 to 1958. The data was collected from Lake Macquarie.
The Wangara Experiment was a joint project between CSIRO Division of Meteorological Physics and the Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology. The experiment took place in Hay, NSW (34.5S, 144.93E) from the 15th July to the 27th August, 1967. The dataset includes hourly pilot balloon winds up to 2km. Radiosonde temperatures and mixing ratios.Micrometeorological measurements. Surface observations of pressure, dry and wet bulb temperature, "weather" cloud type and amount and surface wind direction. Geostrophic winds at the surface, thermal winds and estimates of total acceleration.The data is provided in a comprehensive technical report ( ref (1971 )above and link below). The fluxes (latent and sensible) from the Wangara dataset have been recalculated by Bruce Hicks details can be found in the (ref (1981) above and link below). The recalculated fluxes are used in the Wangara2 datasets provided.
This product (i.e. Access data base) contains data (longitudes, latitude and biodiversity attribute variables) that describes the predicted spatial patterns of biodiversity categories based on species richness and evenness of demersal fish in the EMR. This product provides predictions for total species abundance, species richness and species evenness and estimates of uncertainty for demersal fish. The predicted patterns are represented as point data arranged on a 0.1 degree grid (~ 1.2 km2) covering depths 50-900 metres in the EMR from 24oS to 34oS
This record describes echosounder data collected on the Marine National Facility RV Investigator voyage IN20Y15_V03. This voyage took place from Brisbane to Sydney between 3rd June 2015 and 18th June 2015. The Simrad EK60 split beam echosounders 18, 38, 70, 120, 200 and 333 KHz to acquire water column and bathymetry data. Data are stored in *.raw *.bot and *.idx format at CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere. There are 1179 files totaling 80.6GB of raw data in this dataset. Additional information regarding this dataset is contained in the GSM data acquisition and processing report.
Multibeam echosounder data collected on Southern Surveyor voyage 12/2008 using the Simrad EM300 multibeam echosounder to acquire high resolution seafloor bathymetry and backscatter information. This voyage took place off NSW/Queensland east coast during November 2008. Ping rate varied according to depth. Data are stored in Simrad *.all raw format at CMAR and Geoscience Australia (GA). There are 323 files totalling 7.53 GB of raw data in this dataset. Additional information regarding this dataset is contained in the cruise report for this voyage and/or the data processing report (as available).
Multibeam echosounder data collected on Southern Surveyor voyage ss2010_v08 using the Simrad EM300 multibeam echosounder to acquire high resolution seafloor bathymetry and backscatter information. This voyage took place off Sydney during September and Ocotober 2010. Ping rate varied according to depth. Data are stored in Simrad *.all raw format at CMAR and Geoscience Australia (GA). There are 286 files totalling 4.33 GB of raw data in this dataset. Additional information regarding this dataset is contained in the cruise report for this voyage and/or the data processing report (as available).
The O&A Marine Plankton Collection comprises of historical zooplankton samples collected between 1940 - 1996. The collection is housed at the EcoSciences Precinct, Dutton Park, QLD. The collection includes: (1) Phytoplankton and zooplankton samples collected by the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) Australian Continuous Plankton Recorder survey (AusCPR) (2) Zooplankton samples from the IMOS National Reference Stations program. (3) Detailed information regarding the plankton collection held at Dutton Park was added in August 2014 (refer to: Plankton_Historic_samples_ sorted_ by_AF_24_06_2014.xlsx). Note that this list is incomplete and is currently only a working list, as such it be updated regularly. Refer to document link below. The collection includes data collected by the following vessels: 1. Diamantina voyages 1959-1963: Indian Ocean, Western Australia, GAB, Jjakarta, Sumatra, North West, during 1970-1973 (1973 Freemantle to Hobart). 2. Derwent Hunter 1954-1961: South East Australia (1959-60), NSW coast (Port Stephens-Jervis Bay) and Tasman Sea (1960), Jervis Bay 1961, 3. Courageous (1978) 4. Gascoyne: 1962, SE Indian Ocean Coastal Station Data: 1. Port Hacking stations: 1959, 1968-1971 2. Batemans Bay 1959-1960, 3. Bermagui 1957-1960 4. Jervis Bay 1958-1960 4. Eden NSW: 1956-1960
The O&A Moorings data set includes data collected using moored current meters deployed at various locations around Australia and in the southern Ocean has been loaded into the the CMAR Data Warehouse. Individual metadata records contain detailed information about each experiment. Most of these data were collected by the historical CSIRO divisions of Fisheries, Oceanography, Marine Research and now Marine and Atmospheric Research. Moorings data typically consists of time series station data measuring current, salinity, temperature and pressure over an extended period. The subset extracted for MARVL contains data on the continental shelf as defined by the 200 metre depth contour from the 2012 Bathymetric dataset merged (spatial union) with the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the Australian Maritime Boundary dataset (http://www.ga.gov.au/metadata-gateway/metadata/record/gcat_63565) available from Geosciences Australia (GA). This subset of the data contains 29,805 measurements from 2 moorings and spans from 1995 to 1996 The full data set is held in the O&A Information & Datacentre Data Warehouse, which currently holds 2,878,549 recordings from 33 moorings collected since 1983. Individual metadata records have been created for each station.
The O&A Underway data set includes data collected during the voyages of Australia's Marine National Facility and CSIRO marine research vessels. Underway data typically consists of voyage track point data that has been interpolated into a standard time interval. The subset extracted for MARVL contains data on the continental shelf as defined by the 200 metre depth contour from the 2012 Bathymetric dataset merged (spatial union) with the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the Australian Maritime Boundary dataset (http://www.ga.gov.au/metadata-gateway/metadata/record/gcat_63565) available from Geosciences Australia (GA). This subset of the data contains 7,179,357 position records from 206 voyages and includes air/water temperature, pressure and salinity (derived) and spans from 1995 to the present. The full data set is held in the O&A Information & Datacentre Data Warehouse, which currently holds over 28,457,501 position records from 313 voyages collected since 1986. This data includes air pressure, air and sea surface temperature, water depth, humidity, fluorescence, pyranometer, wind, par, ship heading and speed, rain, radiometer and salinity (derived). Individual metadata records have been created for each research voyage.