The Coastal Pioneer New England Shelf Central Offshore Profiler Mooring is located at the Continental Shelf-Slope Break approximately 150 meters deep. The Continental Shelf-Slope area off the New England coast is a highly productive area and one that is located at a dynamic intersection where ocean currents meet in weather-like “fronts,” and where nutrients, pollutants, and other properties are exchanged between the coast and the deep ocean.


Platform DOI and Citation Guidance

OOI assigns Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) at the platform or site level. The DOI for the Coastal Pioneer New England Shelf Central Offshore Profiler Mooring is 10.58046/OOI-CP02PMCO.

The minimum recommended citation for this platform is:

NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative. (2014). Coastal Pioneer New England Shelf Central Offshore Profiler Mooring, DOI: 10.58046/OOI-CP02PMCO.

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Data Access

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Platform Description

The Pioneer NES Central Offshore Profiler Mooring is located at the Continental Shelf-Slope Break approximately 150 meters deep. The Continental Shelf-Slope area off the New England coast is a highly productive area and one that is located at a dynamic intersection where ocean currents meet in weather-like “fronts,” and where nutrients, pollutants, and other properties are exchanged between the coast and the deep ocean. Data from the slope break area help to examine exchanges between the shelf and slope and the shelf ecosystem, as well as provide broader insight into the issues of air-sea gas exchange, including Carbon Dioxide.

Like other Coastal Profiler Moorings, the Pioneer NES Central Offshore Profiler Mooring contains a Wire-Following Profiler that houses instruments.  The Wire-Following Profiler moves through the water column along the mooring riser, continuously sampling ocean characteristics over a specified depth interval.

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
CP02PMCO-SBS01-01-MOPAK0000 0m Surface Buoy 3-Axis Motion Pack (MOPAK0) MicroStrain - 3DM-GX3-25
CP02PMCO-WFP01-01-VEL3DK000 15 to 125 meters Wire-Following Profiler 3-D Single Point Velocity Meter (VEL3DK) Nortek - Aquadopp II
CP02PMCO-WFP01-04-FLORTK000 15 to 125 meters Wire-Following Profiler 3-Wavelength Fluorometer (FLORTK) WET Labs - ECO Triplet
CP02PMCO-WFP01-03-CTDPFK000 15 to 125 meters Wire-Following Profiler CTD (CTDPFK) Sea-Bird - SBE 52MP
CP02PMCO-WFP01-02-DOFSTK000 15 to 125 meters Wire-Following Profiler Dissolved Oxygen (DOFSTK) Sea-Bird - SBE 43F
CP02PMCO-WFP01-05-PARADK000 15 to 125 meters Wire-Following Profiler Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PARADK) Biospherical Instruments - QSP-2200
CP02PMCO-SBS01-00-STCENG000 0m Surface Buoy Platform Controller (STCENG) WHOI - Sensor and Telemetry Controller
CP02PMCO-WFP01-00-WFPENG000 15 to 125 meters Wire-Following Profiler Profiler Controller (WFPENG) McLane - MMP
CP02PMCO-RII01-02-ADCPTG010 15 to 125 meters Mooring Riser Velocity Profiler (150kHz) (ADCPTG) Teledyne RDI - WorkHorse Sentinel150khz - inductive