The Irminger Sea array has two identical Flanking Moorings that make up the equidistant sides of a triangle of Moorings (20 km) from the co-located Profiler and Surface Moorings.  They are 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.

Like other Flanking Subsurface Moorings, the Irminger Sea Flanking Subsurface Moorings contain instruments fixed at specific depths along the mooring riser throughout the water column to a depth of 2,600 meters. The flotation buoy for these subsurface moorings is located 30 meters below the sea surface. As they have no surface expression, these moorings communicate and send data to shore via an acoustic link to nearby gliders.

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
GI03FLMB-RIS01-05-FLORTD000 30m Mooring Riser 3-Wavelength Fluorometer (FLORTD) WET Labs - ECO Triplet-w
GI03FLMB-RIM01-02-CTDMOH070 1,000m Mooring Riser CTD (1000 m) (CTDMOH) Sea-Bird - SBE 37IM
GI03FLMB-RIM01-02-CTDMOG064 130m Mooring Riser CTD (130 m) (CTDMOG) Sea-Bird - SBE 37IM
GI03FLMB-RIM01-02-CTDMOH071 1,500m Mooring Riser CTD (1500 m) (CTDMOH) Sea-Bird - SBE 37IM
GI03FLMB-RIM01-02-CTDMOG065 180m Mooring Riser CTD (180 m) (CTDMOG) Sea-Bird - SBE 37IM
GI03FLMB-RI000-00-CTDMOH000 1,800m Mooring Riser CTD (1800 m) (CTDMOH) Sea-Bird - SBE 37IM
GI03FLMB-RI000-00-CTDMOH700 2,100m Mooring Riser CTD (2100 m) (CTDMOH) Sea-Bird - SBE 37IM
GI03FLMB-RI000-00-CTDMOH400 2,400m Mooring Riser CTD (2400 m) (CTDMOH) Sea-Bird - SBE 37IM
GI03FLMB-RIM01-02-CTDMOG066 250m Mooring Riser CTD (250 m) (CTDMOG) Sea-Bird - SBE 37IM
GI03FLMB-RI000-00-CTDMOH100 2,700m Mooring Riser CTD (2700 m) (CTDMOH) Sea-Bird - SBE 37IM
GI03FLMB-RIM01-02-CTDMOG060 30m Mooring Riser CTD (30 m) (CTDMOG) Sea-Bird - SBE 37IM
GI03FLMB-RIM01-02-CTDMOG067 350m Mooring Riser CTD (350 m) (CTDMOG) Sea-Bird - SBE 37IM
GI03FLMB-RIM01-02-CTDMOG061 40m Mooring Riser CTD (40 m) (CTDMOG) Sea-Bird - SBE 37IM
GI03FLMB-RIM01-02-CTDMOG068 500m Mooring Riser CTD (500 m) (CTDMOG) Sea-Bird - SBE 37IM
GI03FLMB-RIM01-02-CTDMOG062 60m Mooring Riser CTD (60 m) (CTDMOG) Sea-Bird - SBE 37IM
GI03FLMB-RIM01-02-CTDMOH069 750m Mooring Riser CTD (750 m) (CTDMOH) Sea-Bird - SBE 37IM
GI03FLMB-RIM01-02-CTDMOG063 90m Mooring Riser CTD (90 m) (CTDMOG) Sea-Bird - SBE 37IM
GI03FLMB-RIS01-03-DOSTAD000 30m Mooring Riser Dissolved Oxygen (DOSTAD) Aanderaa - Optode 4831
GI03FLMB-RIS01-00-SIOENG000 30m Mooring Riser Platform Controller (SIOENG) SIO - Subsurface mooring controller
GI03FLMB-RIM01-00-SIOENG000 1,510m Mooring Riser Platform Controller (SIOENG) SIO - Subsurface mooring controller
GI03FLMB-RIS01-04-PHSENF000 30m Mooring Riser Seawater pH (PHSENF) Sunburst - SAMI-pH
GI03FLMB-RI000-00-VELPTB000 1,800m Mooring Riser Single Point Velocity Meter (1800 m) (VELPTB) Nortek - Aquadopp 3000m
GI03FLMB-RI000-00-VELPTB700 2,100m Mooring Riser Single Point Velocity Meter (2100 m) (VELPTB) Nortek - Aquadopp 3000m
GI03FLMB-RI000-00-VELPTB400 2,400m Mooring Riser Single Point Velocity Meter (2400 m) (VELPTB) Nortek - Aquadopp 3000m
GI03FLMB-RI000-00-VELPTB100 2,700m Mooring Riser Single Point Velocity Meter (2700 m) (VELPTB) Nortek - Aquadopp 3000m
GI03FLMB-RIM01-02-ADCPSL007 500m Mooring Riser Velocity Profiler (75 kHz) (ADCPSL) Teledyne RDI - WorkHorse LongRanger Sentinel 75khz - inductive