GBRLSL: Lizard Island Slope Mooring component of the GBR Mooring Array

GBRLSL: Lizard Island Slope Mooring component of the GBR Mooring Array. Northern GBR - Lizard Island MooringsThe moorings in the northern area around Lizard Island are designed to detect two phenomena. The first is to measure the northern arm of the bifurcation where the westward South Equatorial Current impacts the reef and splits into two streams, one traveling north and one travelling south along the outer GBR. The bifurcation point varies latitudinally seasonally and so the variability is to be monitored. The slope mooring is located near Jewel Reef (GBRLSL).The other process being measured is the cross shelf movement of water onto the GBR shelf. As the outer ribbon reef is well defined in this area most of the exchange is confined to narrow reef passages and the entrance of Cormorant Passage has been occupied (GBRLSH). The Mooring array is part of the GBROOS or Great Barrier Reef Ocean Observing System project which in turn is part of the Australian Integrated Marine Observing System or IMOS.

GBRLSL：大堡礁锚定阵列（GBR Mooring Array）下属的蜥蜴岛斜坡锚定组件。大堡礁北部蜥蜴岛海域锚定装置：
环绕蜥蜴岛北部区域的锚定装置旨在监测两类海洋现象。其一为测量分叉流的北支：向西流动的南赤道流（South Equatorial Current）冲击珊瑚礁后会分裂为两支海流，一支沿大堡礁外缘向北流动，另一支向南流动。该分叉点的纬度位置存在季节变化，因此需对其变化特征开展持续监测。本斜坡锚定装置设于珠宝礁附近，对应代号GBRLSL。
另一类监测对象为水体跨陆架进入大堡礁陆架的运移过程。由于该区域外缘的带状珊瑚礁边界清晰，多数水体交换均局限于狭窄的珊瑚礁通道内，其中鸬鹚水道（Cormorant Passage）的入口处已布设锚定装置（GBRLSH）。
本锚定阵列隶属于大堡礁海洋观测系统（Great Barrier Reef Ocean Observing System，简称GBROOS）项目，而该项目同时也是澳大利亚综合海洋观测系统（Australian Integrated Marine Observing System，简称IMOS）的组成部分。