The Coastal Pioneer Mid-Atlantic Bight Southeastern Profiler Mooring is located on the Continental Shelf, approximately 300 meters deep. The MAB continental shelf north of Cape Hatteras is characterized by a persistent equator-ward current originating from the north, a shelfbreak front separating shelf and slope waters, distributed buoyancy inputs from rivers, variable wind forcing, and intermittent offshore forcing by Gulf Stream meanders.


Platform DOI and Citation Guidance

OOI assigns Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) at the platform or site level. The DOI for the Coastal Pioneer Mid-Atlantic Bight Southeastern Profiler Mooring is 10.58046/OOI-CP14SEPM.

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NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative. (2014). Coastal Pioneer Mid-Atlantic Bight Southeastern Profiler Mooring, DOI: 10.58046/OOI-CP14SEPM.

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Platform Description

The Pioneer MAB Southeastern Profiler Mooring is located on the Continental Shelf, approximately 300 meters deep. The MAB continental shelf north of Cape Hatteras is characterized by a persistent equator-ward current originating from the north, a shelfbreak front separating shelf and slope waters, distributed buoyancy inputs from rivers, variable wind forcing, and intermittent offshore forcing by Gulf Stream meanders. The Pioneer MAB Array is designed to resolve transport processes and ecosystem dynamics in the vicinity of the shelfbreak front, which is a region of complex oceanographic dynamics, intermittent mesoscale variability, and enhanced biological productivity.

Like other Coastal Profiler Moorings, the Pioneer MAB Southeastern Profiler Mooring instruments are mounted on the Surface Buoy, Subsurface Sphere, within the Wire-Following Profiler, and on a frame on the riser wire.  The Wire-Following Profiler moves through the water column along the mooring riser, continuously sampling ocean characteristics over a specified depth interval. The instruments communicate with the Surface Buoy through the inductive riser wire. Additionally, the Surface Buoy contains antennas to transmit data to shore via satellite.

Instruments

This site/platform includes the following instruments. To learn more about an instrument type, select the instrument class-series. To access relevant data streams for an instrument, the instrument code will take you to the OOI Data Portal.

Instrument Code Depth Node Instrument
Class-Series
Make & Model
CP14SEPM-WFP01-04-FLORTK000 23 to 280 meters Wire-Following Profiler 3-wavelength Fluorometer (FLORTK) WET Labs - ECO Triplet
CP14SEPM-WFP01-01-VEL3DK000 23 to 280 meters Wire-Following Profiler 3D Single Point Velocity (VEL3DK) Nortek - Aquadopp II
CP14SEPM-WFP01-00-WFPENG001 23 to 280 meters Wire-Following Profiler Controller (WFPENG) McLane Research Labs - MMP
CP14SEPM-SBI01-02-CTDMOS011 1m Surface Buoy CTD (CTDMOS) Sea-Bird - SBE 37IM
CP14SEPM-WFP01-03-CTDPFK000 23 to 280 meters Wire-Following Profiler CTD (CTDPFK) Sea-Bird - SBE 52MP
CP14SEPM-WFP01-02-DOFSTK000 23 to 280 meters Wire-Following Profiler Dissolved Oxygen (DOFSTK) Sea-Bird - SBE 43F
CP14SEPM-SBS01-01-MOPAK0000 0m Surface Buoy Motion Pack (MOPAK0) Microstrain - 3DM-GX3-25
CP14SEPM-WFP01-05-PARADK000 23 to 280 meters Wire-Following Profiler Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PARADK) Biospherical Instruments - QSP-2200
CP14SEPM-SBS01-00-STCENG000 0m Surface Buoy Platform Controller (STCENG) WHOI - Sensor and Telemetry Controller
CP14SEPM-RII01-02-ADCPUP021 17m Mooring Riser Velocity Profiler (ADCPUP) Nortek - Aquadopp Profiler S1VP
CP14SEPM-RII01-02-ADCPSL010 281m Mooring Riser Velocity Profiler (ADCPSL) Teledyne RDI - Workhorse Sentinel 150kHz - inductive