IMOS - ACORN - Bonney Coast HF ocean radar site (South Australia, Australia) - Real-time sea water velocity

• Other Authors: AODN Data Manager (pointOfContact), AODN Data Manager (distributor), Cosoli, Simone (pointOfContact), Data Officer (pointOfContact), Data Officer (distributor), Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) (resourceProvider), Oceans Graduate School (OGS), The University of Western Australia (UWA) (hasAssociationWith)
• Format: Dataset
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• Published: Australian Ocean Data Network
• Subjects: oceans; EDDIES; EARTH SCIENCE; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN CURRENTS; Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Upwelling; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION; CORAL REEFS; COASTAL PROCESSES; RADIO WAVE; SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING; IMOS Site | BONC | Bonney Coast HF ocean radar site; SeaSonde (CODAR) HF Radar | Amplitude Direction Finding; Doppler Frequency; Physical Oceanography; Global / Oceans | Southern Ocean; Marine Features (Australia) | Great Australian Bight; SA/WA; Countries | Australia; Marine Features (Australia) | Bonney Coast; SA; States; Territories (Australia) | South Australia; SeaSonde direction finding HF radar; Current speed in the water body; Current direction in the water body; Eastward current velocity in the water body; Northward current velocity in the water body; surface current radars; Ocean Radar Facility; Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS); Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://researchdata.edu.au/imos-acorn-bonney-water-velocity/954913

Credit Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) is enabled by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). It is operated by a consortium of institutions as an unincorporated joint venture, with the University of Tasmania as Lead Agent. Credit The University of Western Australia (UWA) The Bonney Coast (BONC) HF ocean radar system covers an area of the Bonney Coast, South Australia, which has a recurring annual upwelling feature near to the coast that significantly changes the ecosystem from one of warm water originating in Western Australia, to one dominated by cold upwelling water from off the continental shelf. The dynamics of this area and the relationship between ocean circulation, chemistry and sediments control the larval species and the higher marine species and ecosystems in which they forage. The data from this site provide linking observations between the Southern Ocean and NSW through processes that occur on weekly to El Nino time scales. The BONC HF ocean radar system consists of two SeaSonde crossed loop direction finding stations located at Nora Creina (37.329 S 139.850 E) and Blackfellows Cave (37.940 S 140.457 E). These radars operate at a frequency of 5.211 MHz, with a bandwidth of 50 KHz, a maximum range of 200 Km and a range resolution of 3 Km. Within the HF radar coverage area surface currents are measured. This site was decommissioned in March 2017.