eReefs Visualization Portal - Australian Institute of Marine Science
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eReefs Visualization Portal - AIMS
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Abstract
In this portal you will find a range of visualisations of the eReefs Hydrodynamic and BioGeoChemical models of the Great Barrier Reef. These models are like weather models, but for the marine environment, providing a picture of the current and historical environmental conditions on the Great Barrier Reef. Here you can see past extreme weather events such as:
- Cyclones: Yasi (Feb 2011), Ita (April 2014), Nathan (March 2015), Debbi (March 2017),
- Coral bleaching from high temperature (March 2016, March 2017),
- Flood plumes with low salinity (North Queensland Flooding 2019, Burdekin Jan 2011).
This site provides both direct visualisations of the outputs of the eReefs Hydrodynamic and BioGeoChemical models and aggregations of the hourly and daily data to longer time periods (monthly and annual).