The Irminger Sea Apex Profiler Mooring is co-located with Apex Surface 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 Profiler 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.

The Irminger Sea Apex Profiler Mooring contains one Wire-Following Profiler that houses instrumentation. The Wire-Following Profiler moves through the water column along the mooring riser, continuously sampling ocean characteristics at a high vertical resolution over a specified depth interval (240-2,400 meters).

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
GI02HYPM-MPM01-02-ZPLSGA009 150m Mooring Riser Bio-acoustic Sonar (Global) (ZPLSGA) ASL Environmental Sciences - AZFP
GI02HYPM-MPM01-02-ZPLSGA010 150m Mooring Riser Bio-acoustic Sonar (Global) (ZPLSGA) ASL Environmental Sciences - AZFP
GI02HYPM-RIM01-02-CTDMOG039 164m Mooring Riser CTD (CTDMOG) Sea-Bird - SBE 37IM
GI02HYPM-WFP02-01-FLORDL000 240 to 2,592 meters Wire-Following Profiler Upper 2-Wavelength Fluorometer (FLORDL) WET Labs - FLBBRTD
GI02HYPM-WFP02-05-VEL3DL000 240 to 2,592 meters Wire-Following Profiler Upper 3-D Single Point Velocity Meter (VEL3DL) Falmouth Scientific - ACM-Plus
GI02HYPM-WFP02-04-CTDPFL000 240 to 2,592 meters Wire-Following Profiler Upper CTD (CTDPFL) Sea-Bird - SBE 52MP
GI02HYPM-WFP02-03-DOSTAL000 240 to 2,592 meters Wire-Following Profiler Upper Dissolved Oxygen (DOSTAL) Aanderaa - Optode 4330
GI02HYPM-WFP02-00-WFPENG000 240 to 2,592 meters Wire-Following Profiler Upper Profiler Controller (WFPENG) McLane - MMP
GI02HYPM-RIM01-00-SIOENG000 2,600m Mooring Riser Platform Controller (SIOENG) SIO - Subsurface mooring controller