Pioneer MAB AUV Mobile Assets (CP16MOAS)

Alongside Coastal Gliders, Coastal Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are a Mobile Asset that surveys 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 Autonomous Underwater Vehicles is 10.58046/OOI-CP16MOAS.

The minimum recommended citation for this platform is:

NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative. (2024). Coastal Pioneer Mid-Atlantic Bight Mobile Asset Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, DOI: 10.58046/OOI-CP16MOAS.

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AUV Mission Tracks

• Cross-Shelf, providing synoptic cross-shelf “snapshots” of the frontal zone.
• Along-Shelf, providing synoptic along-shelf “snapshots” of submesoscale structure in the vicinity of the shelfbreak front.

Two Coastal AUVs (HII REMUS-600 AUVs) travel along transects across the shelf-break frontal system extending beyond the mooring array, covering an area approximately 1000 square kilometers in size centered on the array of moorings. The primary role of the AUVs is to resolve cross- and along-front “eddy fluxes” due to frontal instabilities, wind forcing, and mesoscale variability. These AUVs travel along saw-toothed transects, penetrating the sea surface and diving down to a maximum depth of 600 meters.

Deployment Photos

Instruments

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