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IMOS - National Mooring Network - New South Wales (NSW) Ocean Reference Station (ORS065) Mooring

Sea Surface HeightSea Surface SalinitySea Surface TemperatureSurface Currents

The NSW Ocean Reference Station Mooring (IMOS platform code: ORS065) is one of several regional moorings in New South Wales. The Ocean Reference Station is maintained and funded by Sydney Water Corporation. Sydney Ocean Reference Station data was historically collected and processed by Clive Holden at Oceanographic Field Services under contract to Sydney Water Corporation.

The ORS was first deployed in 1991 by Sydney Water Corporation and provides a valuable long-term water quality time series.

ORS parameters include: Temperature measured at 14 different depths, Salinity at 55 m, east-west and north-south current components at 29 nominal depths.

The mooring is located at Latitude:-33.898, Longitude:151.315.

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Additional information

Temporal extent2008-05-28 – ongoing
Date (creation)2009-03-10
Date (revision)2022-11-01
StatusonGoing
Update frequencycontinual
Metadata languageen
LicenseCreative Commons Attribution 4.0
Source metadataISO 19115 XML
Last updated2026-11-05
Created2026-11-05
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