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Weather Stations
AIMS has operated weather stations for more than 20 years in
order to collect important meteorological and oceanographic
information used in its research.
The permanent weather stations monitor climatic conditions
including air temperature, wind speed, wind direction and
barometric pressure. They also record water temperatures at
various depths and the amount of above-water photosynthetically
active radiation which is relevant to coral photosynthesis.
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stations send the data back to a base station at AIMS
headquarters every half hour. The data is processed,
archived, quality controlled and served through the
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weather data from AIMS remote weather stations
The existing weather stations have been designed and built by
AIMS. They will gradually be upgraded to take advantage of new
sensor and communication technology. Over the next three years,
there will also be an expansion of the number of sites and
variables collected through implementation of the Great
Barrier Reef Ocean Observing System.
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