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NW Shelf ARGOS Drifters

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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The extent to which the major coral reef systems of the Western Australian Coast are interconnected through hydrodynamic pathways is not well understood. Over the last 4 years, a fleet of satellite tracked "Davis" type near-surface drifters (see Bird et al., 2004 for details) has been deployed from Scott Reef, Ashmore Reef and the Rowley Shoals to investigate and describe the hydrodynamic connectivity between these isolated coral reefs.

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Field Value
Title NW Shelf ARGOS Drifters
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/8e0db673-b6cc-4599-9edd-1215e75bc256
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
adc@aims.gov.au
Reference Period 01/09/2003 - 01/11/2005
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        117.549,
        -17.9626
      ],
      [
        123.5114,
        -17.9626
      ],
      [
        123.5114,
        -11.6054
      ],
      [
        117.549,
        -11.6054
      ],
      [
        117.549,
        -17.9626
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "NW Shelf ARGOS Drifters". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/nw-shelf-argos-drifters