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

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

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.