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The Argentine Basin Profiler Mooring is co-located with Argentine Basin Surface Mooring at the Apex site. Two identical Flanking Moorings make up the equidistant sides of a triangle of Moorings (62 km) from the Apex site. The Profiler Mooring is located in 5,200 meters of water along the Brazil Current in the South Atlantic. The triangular configuration moorings provide unique spatial array through which instruments fixed to moorings continuously collect data through time and gliders sample the area between the moorings. The Argentine Basin site is one of four high latitude open ocean locations in the OOI that provide observations to gain better insight into global ocean circulation and climate.\nThe Argentine Basin Profiler Mooring contains two Wire-Following Profilers that house instrumentation. The Wire-Following Profiler moves through the water column along the mooring riser, continuously sampling ocean characteristics at a high vertical resolution over a specified depth interval (310-2,445 meters and 2,470-4605 meters deep).
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(2015) Global Southern Ocean Apex Profiler Mooring (GS02HYPM)
"The Southern Ocean Profiler Mooring is co-located with Southern Ocean Surface Mooring at the Apex site. Two identical Flanking Moorings make up the equidistant sides of a triangle of Moorings (50 km) from the Apex site. The Profiler Mooring is located in 4,800 meters of water in the Southern Ocean, SW of Chile. The triangular configuration moorings provide unique spatial array through which instruments fixed to moorings continuously collect data through time and gliders sample the area between the moorings. The Southern Ocean site is one of four high latitude open ocean locations in the OOI that provide observations to gain better insight into global ocean circulation and climate. The Southern Ocean Profiler Mooring contains two Wire-Following Profilers that house instrumentation. The Wire-Following Profiler moves through the water column along the mooring riser, continuously sampling ocean characteristics at a high vertical resolution over a specified depth interval (310-2,100 meters and 2,100-4,400 meters deep)."
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- PAR ID:
- 10634365
- Publisher / Repository:
- US NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative
- Date Published:
- Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
- FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences FOS: Environmental engineering
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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