Pioneer MAB Glider Mobile Assets (CP15MOAS)

Coastal Gliders are one kind of Mobile Asset that survey the area in and around the array of moorings at the Coastal Pioneer MAB Array.

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 Mobile Asset Gliders is 10.58046/OOI-CP15MOAS.

The minimum recommended citation for this platform is:

NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative. (2014). Coastal Pioneer Mid-Atlantic Bight Mobile Asset Gliders, DOI: 10.58046/OOI-CP15MOAS.

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Data Access

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Glider Track Lines

• Offshore Flux, providing repeat north-south transects, nominally over the 1000 m isobath, to allow estimation of cross-shelf fluxes.
• Moored Array, providing repeat along-shelf transects at ~100 m depth while circumnavigating a triangle created by the three Coastal Surface Moorings
• Offshore Mesoscale, providing information about mesoscale features within the slope sea that may impinge on the continental shelf.
• Cross-Shelf, providing repeat cross-shelf transects along the east-west moored array line from the shelfbreak to ~30 m depth.

Four Coastal Gliders (Teledyne-Webb Slocum Gliders) sample large, mesoscale features through a broad region (2900 square kilometers) of the outer continental shelf between the shelf break and the Gulf Stream. The role of these gliders in monitoring this broader area is to resolve rings, eddies and meanders from the Gulf Stream as they impinge on the shelf break front. These Teledyne-Webb Slocum Gliders fly through the water column along saw-tooth paths, penetrating the sea surface and diving down to a maximum depth of 1000 meters.

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Instruments

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