Apex Profiler Mooring (GS02HYPM)

The Southern Ocean Apex Profiler Mooring is co-located with Apex Surface Mooring. Additionally, at the Southern Ocean site are two identical Flanking Subsurface that make up the equidistant sides of a triangle of Moorings (50 km) from the co-located Profiler and Surface Moorings. The Profiler Mooring is located in 4,800 meters of water in the Southern Ocean, SW of Chile. 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 Southern Ocean 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 Southern Ocean 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 (310-2,100 meters and 2,100-4,400 meters deep).

This site was suspended on: 01/15/2020.

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.