OOI Global Component Provides Window into the High Latitude Ocean
(Click to enlarge) Credit: Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The global component of the OOI design includes a network of buoys. These buoys will support sensors for measurement of air-sea fluxes of heat, moisture and momentum; physical, biological and chemical properties throughout the water column; and geophysical observations made on the sea-floor. Such moorings, designed to make interdisciplinary observations at high interest, yet distant sites, represent a unique aspect of the global component of the OOI.
A network of globally deployed, fixed ocean observatories is designed to contribute to studies of the ocean’s role in, and response to, climate change.
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and its partners, Oregon State University and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, serves as the Implementing Organization (IO) for the Global portion of the system.
