The Irminger Sea Apex Surface Mooring is co-located with Apex Profiler Mooring. Additionally, at the Irminger Sea site are two identical Flanking Subsurface that make up the equidistant sides of a triangle of Moorings (20 km) from the co-located Profiler and Surface Moorings.  The Surface Mooring is located in 2,800 meters of water southeast of Greenland in the North 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 Irminger Sea 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.  In particular instruments on the Surface Buoy will provide key insights into climate dynamics associated with air-sea fluxes.

Like other Open Ocean Surface Moorings, the Irminger Sea Apex Surface Mooring is specifically designed to examine global phenomena as well as withstand rough sea conditions associated with high latitude, deep, open ocean sites. The Surface Mooring contains instruments attached to a Surface Buoy floating on the sea surface, Near Surface Instrument Frame 12 meters below the surface, and instruments attached to the Mooring Riser at fixed depths through the water column. The Surface Buoy provides a platform on which to secure surface instruments above the sea surface, below the sea surface, and across the interface between. Additionally the Surface Buoy contains an antenna to transmit data to shore via satellite.

Instruments

This site includes following instruments. To learn more about an instrument type, select its name on the left. To see the relevant data streams for a particular instrument, select the instrument code in the first column which will take you to the OOI Data Portal.

Instrument Depth Node Instrument
Class-Series
Make & Model
GI01SUMO-SBD11-06-METBKA000 -5m Surface Buoy Bulk Meteorology Instrument Package (METBKA) Star Engineering - ASIMET
GI01SUMO-SBD12-06-METBKA000 -5m Surface Buoy Bulk Meteorology Instrument Package (METBKA) Star Engineering - ASIMET
GI01SUMO-SBD12-08-FDCHPA000 -5m Surface Buoy Direct Covariance Flux (FDCHPA) WHOI - DCFS
GI01SUMO-SBD11-05-SPKIRB000 -5m Surface Buoy Spectral Irradiance (SPKIRB) Satlantic - OCR507 ICSW
GI01SUMO-SBD11-01-MOPAK0000 0m Surface Buoy 3-Axis Motion Pack (MOPAK0) MicroStrain - 3DM-GX3-25
GI01SUMO-SBD11-00-DCLENG000 0m Surface Buoy Data Concentrator Logger (DCL) (DCLENG) WHOI - Data Concentrator Logger
GI01SUMO-SBD12-00-DCLENG000 0m Surface Buoy Data Concentrator Logger (DCL) (DCLENG) WHOI - Data Concentrator Logger
GI01SUMO-SBD11-03-HYDGN0000 0m Surface Buoy Hydrogen Sensor (HYDGN0) RKI Instruments - M2A transmitters
GI01SUMO-SBD12-03-HYDGN0000 0m Surface Buoy Hydrogen Sensor (HYDGN0) RKI Instruments - M2A transmitters
GI01SUMO-SBD12-04-PCO2AA000 0m Surface Buoy pCO2 Air-Sea (PCO2AA) Pro-Oceanus - pCO2-pro
GI01SUMO-SBC11-00-CPMENG000 0m Surface Buoy Platform Controller (CPMENG) WHOI - Communications and Power Manager
GI01SUMO-SBD12-05-WAVSSA000 0m Surface Buoy Surface Wave Spectra (WAVSSA) Axys Technologies - TRIAXYS
GI01SUMO-SBD12-02-FLORTD000 1m Surface Buoy 3-Wavelength Fluorometer (FLORTD) WET Labs - ECO Triplet-w
GI01SUMO-SBD11-04-DOSTAD000 1m Surface Buoy Dissolved Oxygen (DOSTAD) Aanderaa - Optode 4831
GI01SUMO-SBD11-08-NUTNRB000 1m Surface Buoy Nitrate (NUTNRB) Sea-Bird - SUNA V2
GI01SUMO-SBD12-01-OPTAAD000 1m Surface Buoy Spectrophotometer (OPTAAD) WET Labs - AC-S
GI01SUMO-RID16-02-FLORTD000 12m Near Surface Instrument Frame 3-Wavelength Fluorometer (FLORTD) WET Labs - ECO Triplet-w
GI01SUMO-RID16-03-CTDBPF000 12m Near Surface Instrument Frame CTD (CTDBPF) Sea-Bird - SBE 16plusV2
GI01SUMO-RID16-00-DCLENG000 12m Near Surface Instrument Frame Data Concentrator Logger (DCL) (DCLENG) WHOI - Data Concentrator Logger
GI01SUMO-RID16-06-DOSTAD000 12m Near Surface Instrument Frame Dissolved Oxygen (DOSTAD) Aanderaa - Optode 4831
GI01SUMO-RID16-07-NUTNRB000 12m Near Surface Instrument Frame Nitrate (NUTNRB) Sea-Bird - SUNA V2
GI01SUMO-RID16-05-PCO2WB000 12m Near Surface Instrument Frame pCO2 Water (PCO2WB) Sunburst - SAMI-pCO2
GI01SUMO-RID16-04-VELPTA000 12m Near Surface Instrument Frame Single Point Velocity Meter (VELPTA) Nortek - Aquadopp 300m
GI01SUMO-RID16-08-SPKIRB000 12m Near Surface Instrument Frame Spectral Irradiance (SPKIRB) Satlantic - OCR507 ICSW
GI01SUMO-RID16-01-OPTAAD000 12m Near Surface Instrument Frame Spectrophotometer (OPTAAD) WET Labs - AC-S
GI01SUMO-RII11-02-CTDMOQ011 20m Mooring Riser CTD (20 m) (CTDMOQ) Sea-Bird - SBE 37IM
GI01SUMO-RII11-02-PHSENE041 20m Mooring Riser Seawater pH (20 m) (PHSENE) Sunburst - SAMI-pH- inductive
GI01SUMO-RII11-02-FLORDG031 40m Mooring Riser 2-Wavelength Fluorometer (40m) (FLORDG) WET Labs - ECO FLBB-SB
GI01SUMO-RII11-02-CTDMOQ031 40m Mooring Riser CTD (40 m) (CTDMOQ) Sea-Bird - SBE 37IM
GI01SUMO-RII11-02-CTDBPP031 40m Mooring Riser CTD (40m) (CTDBPP) Sea-Bird - SBE 16plus-IM V2
GI01SUMO-RII11-02-DOSTAD031 40m Mooring Riser Dissolved Oxygen (40m) (DOSTAD) Aanderaa - Optode 4831
GI01SUMO-RII11-02-PCO2WC051 40m Mooring Riser pCO2 Water (40m) (PCO2WC) Sunburst - SAMI-pCO2 - inductive
GI01SUMO-RII11-02-CTDMOQ012 60m Mooring Riser CTD (60 m) (CTDMOQ) Sea-Bird - SBE 37IM
GI01SUMO-RII11-02-FLORDG032 80m Mooring Riser 2-Wavelength Fluorometer (80 m) (FLORDG) WET Labs - ECO FLBB-SB
GI01SUMO-RII11-02-CTDBPP032 80m Mooring Riser CTD (80 m) (CTDBPP) Sea-Bird - SBE 16plus-IM V2
GI01SUMO-RII11-02-DOSTAD032 80m Mooring Riser Dissolved Oxygen (80 m) (DOSTAD) Aanderaa - Optode 4831
GI01SUMO-RII11-02-PCO2WC052 80m Mooring Riser pCO2 Water (80 m) (PCO2WC) Sunburst - SAMI-pCO2 - inductive
GI01SUMO-RII11-02-CTDMOQ013 100m Mooring Riser CTD (100 m) (CTDMOQ) Sea-Bird - SBE 37IM
GI01SUMO-RII11-02-PHSENE042 100m Mooring Riser Seawater pH (100 m) (PHSENE) Sunburst - SAMI-pH- inductive
GI01SUMO-RII11-02-FLORDG033 130m Mooring Riser 2-Wavelength Fluorometer (130 m) (FLORDG) WET Labs - ECO FLBB-SB
GI01SUMO-RII11-02-CTDBPP033 130m Mooring Riser CTD (130 m) (CTDBPP) Sea-Bird - SBE 16plus-IM V2
GI01SUMO-RII11-02-CTDMOQ033 130m Mooring Riser CTD (130 m) (CTDMOQ) Sea-Bird - SBE 37IM
GI01SUMO-RII11-02-DOSTAD033 130m Mooring Riser Dissolved Oxygen (130 m) (DOSTAD) Aanderaa - Optode 4831
GI01SUMO-RII11-02-PCO2WC053 130m Mooring Riser pCO2 Water (130 m) (PCO2WC) Sunburst - SAMI-pCO2 - inductive
GI01SUMO-RII11-02-CTDMOQ014 180m Mooring Riser CTD (180 m) (CTDMOQ) Sea-Bird - SBE 37IM
GI01SUMO-RII11-02-CTDMOQ015 250m Mooring Riser CTD (250 m) (CTDMOQ) Sea-Bird - SBE 37IM
GI01SUMO-RII11-02-CTDMOQ016 350m Mooring Riser CTD (350 m) (CTDMOQ) Sea-Bird - SBE 37IM
GI01SUMO-RII11-02-CTDMOQ017 500m Mooring Riser CTD (500 m) (CTDMOQ) Sea-Bird - SBE 37IM
GI01SUMO-RII11-02-ADCPSN010 500m Mooring Riser Velocity Profiler (75 kHz) (ADCPSN) Teledyne RDI - WorkHorse LongRanger Sentinel 75khz - inductive
GI01SUMO-RII11-02-CTDMOR018 750m Mooring Riser CTD (750 m) (CTDMOR) Sea-Bird - SBE 37IM
GI01SUMO-RII11-02-CTDMOR019 1,000m Mooring Riser CTD (1000 m) (CTDMOR) Sea-Bird - SBE 37IM
GI01SUMO-RII11-02-CTDMOR020 1,500m Mooring Riser CTD (1500 m) (CTDMOR) Sea-Bird - SBE 37IM