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The hydrodynamic regime at John Brewer Reef, Great Barrier Reef: Mooring CM2: Current Meter

Created 12/03/2025

Updated 12/03/2025

An Aanderaa RCM current meter was attached to mooring CM2, located south of John Brewer Reef and in the free stream. The mooring was deployed in 36m of water. Deployment Details:Date Deployed: 4/4/1987Date Recovered: 5/9/1987Instrument Deployed:RCM #6022; Depth: 18m The aim of this project was to collect field data to calibrate a numerical model for the combined tidal and wind-forced circulation at John Brewer Reef, and to apply those circulation patterns to calculate the trajectories, residence times and likelihood of outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish on areas of the reef. The model boundary was defined by CM1, CM2, CM3, CM4, CM5 and CM13. However, the current meters attached to moorings CM5 (deployed 2/4/87) and CM13 (deployed 1/4/87) were not recovered. Mooring CM4 (deployed 2/4/87)drifted to the Whitsunday Islands. The current meter was badly fouled and the data were unusable.

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Title The hydrodynamic regime at John Brewer Reef, Great Barrier Reef: Mooring CM2: Current Meter
Language eng
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Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/0bde048e-ac93-4b35-b252-fecb7c8cd497
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CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere
reception@aims.gov.au
Reference Period 20/11/2017
Geospatial Coverage {"type": "Point", "coordinates": [147.043333, -18.8]}
Data Portal data.gov.au

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This dataset was originally found on data.gov.au "The hydrodynamic regime at John Brewer Reef, Great Barrier Reef: Mooring CM2: Current Meter". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/the-hydrodynamic-regime-at-john-brewer-reef-great-barrier-reef-mooring-cm2-current-meter1

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