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A second IMOS buoy will be built in the US. (Bureau of Meteorology: Eric Schulz)
A climate mapping weather buoy has just completed its first deployment in the Southern Ocean almost 600 kilometres off Tasmania's coast.
The 1,300 kg Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) buoy has been relaying data to CSIRO offices in Hobart, showing how the ocean's responding to a changing climate.
The IMOS Director, Tim Moltmann, says the deployment was so successful, another buoy will be built in the United States.
"So at the moment we had to put this mooring in the water, take it out, refurbish and the put it back at a later time, that creates gaps in our time series and we would really like the time series to be continuous" Mr Moltmann said.
"So by building the second mooring we'll be able to create a continuous time series in the future which will be even more valuable," he said.
"What's unique about it is we've never had this kind of data from that part of the ocean before," Mr Moltmann said.
"It's a particularly important part of the ocean because where it is relative to Antarctica, the way its waters are formed and the way that things are exchanged between the ocean and the atmosphere in that part of the world."
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