Hardy Reef Automated Marine Weather And Oceanographic Station

Maintenance and Update Frequency: notPlanned | Statement: Statement: Data from AIMS weather stations are subjected to two quality control processes. The first quality control process involves applying automatic rules to the raw data to flag data points that are unlikely to be correct. These rules flag:- Values frequently associated with sensors which are faulty, in need of a service or are not working properly.- Values outside believable ranges.- Values that are out of range compared to other nearby stations.The second quality control process involves manual visualisation of all data. Data from all sensors are individually graphed and compared to sensors on the same station (e.g. water temperature 1 and water temperature 2), calibrated temperature loggers, predicted values (e.g. PAR) or compared to sensors from nearby stations (including Bureau of Meteorology stations in the case of barometric pressure, wind speed and direction).After these processes have been applied the data can be categorised in the following three levels.Level 0: Raw unprocessed data as received from the AWS. This data has had no quality control process applied to it.Level 1: Level 1 data has had all suspect data points removed but no suspect data points are corrected.Level 2: Level 2 data has had all suspect data points that were removed in Level 1 corrected where possible.Data from all three levels can be accessed from the AIMS weather station web site. | Credit Bainbridge, Scott, Mr (Custodian) | This dataset contains meteorological and sea temperature data from the weather station attached to the Fantasea pontoon on Hardy Reef on the Great Barrier Reef. These data are collected to support scientific research at AIMS. Data are made available on request to other researchers and to the public. The weather station is an AIMS Mk3 SystemData recorded: Sea Temperature (2.5m and 9m at MSL), Barometric Pressure, Air Temperature, Solar Radiation (PAR), Wind Direction True (vector averaged), Wind Speed True (30 min average).This weather station has been deployed in three different locations on Hardy Reef.Location 1: -19.7340, 149.1808 from June 1989 to November 1993Location 2: -19.7358, 149.1808 from November 1993 to January 1996Location 3: -19.733, 149.167 from January 1996 to present.1. Operation and Weather SensorsThe weather stations collect and store data in electronic memory every half-hour. A central base station calls each remote station regularly using HF radio or telephone lines. Th