Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank two anonymous reviewers for their valuable contribution towards significantly improving the paper; and Daniel Hugo for comments on an earlier draft. Thanks to Jeff Dunn for providing excellent advice on development of climatologies; to Ming Feng for assisting in the identification of bounds for QC tests; to Dave Hughes for providing advice on the behaviour of moorings in real conditions. Funding for the development of the NRS was provided by the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (2007–2011), the Education Investment Fund (2009–2013) and the Collaborative Research Infrastructure Scheme (2013–2014). Co-investment has been provided by the Queensland State Government, NSW State Government, the Northern Territory Government, CSIRO, AIMS, SIMS and SARDI.
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