Description
Disclaimer: All data are subject to revision without notice; exact locations of mooring sites are not yet finalized; exact depths of sensors will be determined at the time of deployment.
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Location and SamplingLocation: 50°N, 145°W
Water Depth: 4250 meters
Platform Types
Global Hybrid Profiler Mooring with Mesoscale Flanking Mooring Pair
Description of Infrastructure
- Global Hybrid Profiler Mooring composed of a wire following profiler and a surface
piercing profiler - Two subsurface Mesoscale Flanking Moorings with fixed sensors and acoustic
communications to gliders - Three gliders with extended endurance and acoustic communications to the Mesoscale
Flanking Moorings
Station Summary
The global component of the OOI design includes a network of moorings at critical, yet undersampled, high-latitude locations such as Station Papa in the North Pacific. The array at Station Papa will be occupied in collaboration with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which maintains a surface mooring there. As one of the oldest oceanic time series sites, with surveying conducted in the area since 1949, Station Papa has been an
important location in the global network of OceanSITES. OOI will add to the existing infrastructure at Station Papa by adding three additional moorings to the area as well as mobile platforms (gliders) that will sample in the space between the moorings. The array will be composed of a Global Hybrid Profiler Mooring made up of two types of profilers: a surface piercing profiler operating from ~150 m to the surface, allowing satellite data telemetry, and a wire following profiler operating from ~230 m to 3900 m. Two additional subsurface Mesoscale Flanking Moorings will be deployed to form a triangular array ~50 km on a side. These flanking moorings have their uppermost flotation at ~40 m depth and instruments at discrete depths along the mooring line. Gliders, equipped with acoustic modems to relay data to shore via satellite telemetry and will sample within and around the triangular array. These gliders will carry multidisciplinary sensor suites will be commandable to alter their sampling patterns.
Detailed Infrastructure Tables
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Station Papa Hybrid Profiler MooringStation Papa Flanking Moorings
Station Papa Mobile Assets – Gliders
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