| Summary: | Progress Code: completed Maintenance and Update Frequency: unknown Statement: Data collected by research vessels, satellites, and surface drifters were mapped to uniform spatial grids with resolution appropriate to the original data density. Data were aggregated using the weighted least squares quadratic smoother of Cleveland and Devlin (1988), known as a "loess" smoother. Regionalisations from selected attributes are displayed in the appendix of maps and comprise a set of regionalisations for each of the 3 layers: 0 - 50m, 150m and 800 - 1000m. Credit Data and analysis compiled by CSIRO Divisions of Fisheries and Oceanography, 1996. Project funded by ERIN/OR2000 funds. Credit CSIRO Division of Oceanography: John Wilkin Credit Jeff Dunn Credit Rosemary O'Connor Credit Jan Petersen Credit Ken Ridgway Credit Alison Walker Credit Jim Mansbridge. CSIRO Division of Fisheries: Vince Lyne Credit Peter Last. Antarctic Division: Dr Lee Belbin This dataset presents an oceanographic regionalisation for the Australian region using a multivariate pattern classification system, constructed as part of the CSIRO Bioregionalisation Project. The oceanographic regionalisation comprises an analysis of temperature, dissolved oxygen, salinity, nitrate, phosphate and silicate variability with season and depth. Data sources include research vessels, satellites, and surface drifters, and in particular the archive of vertical profiles of temperature, salinity, oxygen and nutrients comprising over 130,000 stations in the seas adjacent to Australia collected as part of the Division of Oceanography's Oceans-EEZ Analysis System.
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