The Station Papa Apex Profiler Mooring is co-located with a NOAA Surface Mooring. Additionally, at the Station Papa site are two identical Flanking Subsurface that make up the equidistant sides of a triangle of Moorings (40 km) from the co-located Profiler and Surface Moorings. The Profiler Mooring is located in 4,250 meters in the Gulf of Alaska in the NE Pacific. 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 Station Papa 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 Apex Profiler Moorings, the Station Papa Apex Profiler Mooring contains two Wire-Following Profilers that house 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 (156-2090 meters and 2129-4063 meters deep).

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
GP02HYPM-WFP02-01-FLORDL000 156 to 2,090 meters Wire-Following Profiler Upper 2-Wavelength Fluorometer (FLORDL) WET Labs - FLBBRTD
GP02HYPM-WFP03-01-FLORDL000 2,129 to 4,063 meters Wire-Following Profiler Lower 2-Wavelength Fluorometer (FLORDL) WET Labs - FLBBRTD
GP02HYPM-WFP02-05-VEL3DL000 156 to 2,090 meters Wire-Following Profiler Upper 3-D Single Point Velocity Meter (VEL3DL) Falmouth Scientific - ACM-Plus
GP02HYPM-WFP03-05-VEL3DL000 2,129 to 4,063 meters Wire-Following Profiler Lower 3-D Single Point Velocity Meter (VEL3DL) Falmouth Scientific - ACM-Plus
GP02HYPM-MPM01-02-ZPLSGA009 150m Mooring Riser Bio-acoustic Sonar (Global) (ZPLSGA) ASL Environmental Sciences - AZFP
GP02HYPM-MPM01-02-ZPLSGA010 150m Mooring Riser Bio-acoustic Sonar (Global) (ZPLSGA) ASL Environmental Sciences - AZFP
GP02HYPM-RIM01-02-CTDMOG039 155m Mooring Riser CTD (CTDMOG) Sea-Bird - SBE 37IM
GP02HYPM-WFP02-04-CTDPFL000 156 to 2,090 meters Wire-Following Profiler Upper CTD (CTDPFL) Sea-Bird - SBE 52MP
GP02HYPM-WFP03-04-CTDPFL000 2,129 to 4,063 meters Wire-Following Profiler Lower CTD (CTDPFL) Sea-Bird - SBE 52MP
GP02HYPM-WFP02-03-DOSTAL000 156 to 2,090 meters Wire-Following Profiler Upper Dissolved Oxygen (DOSTAL) Aanderaa - Optode 4330
GP02HYPM-WFP03-03-DOSTAL000 2,129 to 4,063 meters Wire-Following Profiler Lower Dissolved Oxygen (DOSTAL) Aanderaa - Optode 4330
GP02HYPM-RIM01-00-SIOENG000 4,073m Mooring Riser Platform Controller (SIOENG) SIO - Subsurface mooring controller
GP02HYPM-WFP02-00-WFPENG000 156 to 2,090 meters Wire-Following Profiler Upper Profiler Controller (WFPENG) McLane - MMP
GP02HYPM-WFP03-00-WFPENG000 2,129 to 4,063 meters Wire-Following Profiler Lower Profiler Controller (WFPENG) McLane - MMP