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Title: (2013) Global Station Papa Apex Profiler Mooring (GP02HYPM)
The Station Papa Profiler Mooring is co-located with a NOAA Surface Mooring at the Apex site. Two identical Flanking Moorings make up the equidistant sides of a triangle of Moorings (40 km) from the Apex site. The Profiler Mooring is located in 4,250 meters in the Gulf of Alaska in the NE Pacific. 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 Station Papa 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 Station Papa 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 (156-2090 meters and 2129-4063 meters deep).  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2244833 1743430
PAR ID:
10641877
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Corporate Creator(s):
Publisher / Repository:
US NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative
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Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences FOS: Environmental engineering
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Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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