IMOS - National Mooring Network - National Reference Station (NRS) Kangaroo Island Mooring

Oxygen Nutrients Inorganic Carbon Particulate matter Sea Surface Salinity Sea Surface Temperature Surface Currents Microbe biomass and diversity

The NRS Kangaroo Island Mooring (IMOS platform code: NRSKAI) is one of a series of National Reference Stations designed to monitor particular oceanographic phenomena in Australian coastal ocean waters. The mooring is located at Latitude:-35.83. Longitude:136.447.

Sensor data are collected at the mooring using an NXIC Conductivity Temperature Pressure (CTD) by Falmouth Scientific, a Workhorse Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) by Teledyne RDI and a Water Quality Monitor (WQM) by WETLabs. Parameters measured include temperature, pressure, salinity, chlorophyll concentration and turbidity.

Sensor data are available in quality controlled NetCDF format from the IMOS OPeNDAP server.

Biogeochemical data are also available.

Data and resources

Biogeochemical water sampling data

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Sensor data (ADCP, CTD and WQM) in NetCDF format via OPeNDAP server

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Website of the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)

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Website of the Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN)

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Additional information

Temporal extent	2008-02-10 – ongoing
Date (creation)	2009-03-10
Status	onGoing
Update frequency	continual
Metadata language	en
License	Data, products and services from IMOS are provided "as is" without any warranty as to fitness for a particular purpose.
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-11-05
Created	2026-11-05
API	package_show