{"id":530620,"date":"2021-10-15T11:03:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T15:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/pioneer17\/?p=530620"},"modified":"2023-02-15T17:58:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T22:58:11","slug":"coastal-pioneer-array","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/coastal-pioneer-array\/","title":{"rendered":"Coastal Pioneer Array NES"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Credit: Center for Environmental Visualization, University of Washington<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Coastal Pioneer Array is located off the coast of New England, about 75 nautical miles south of Martha\u2019s Vineyard. The Continental Shelf-Slope area in this region is highly productive. It serves as a dynamic intersection where ocean currents meet in weather-like \u201cfronts,\u201d and where nutrients, pollutants, and other properties are exchanged between the coast and the deep ocean. Data from the inshore, shelf area helps to examine exchanges between the shelf and slope and the shelf ecosystem, as well as to provide broader insight into air-sea gas exchange, including carbon dioxide absorption.<\/p>\n

The seven-site mooring array spans along- and across-shelf distances of 9 km and 47 kilometers (km). Mooring sites are separated from each other by distances of 9.2 km to 17.5 km. Some sites have paired moorings.<\/p>\n

Moorings are supplemented by six coastal gliders (dashed lines in diagram above), two profiling gliders, and two autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). Coastal gliders monitor the slope sea and outer shelf resolving Gulf Stream rings, eddies, and meanders. Profiling gliders are used as \u201cvirtual moorings\u201d at the Central and Inshore sites in the summer. The overall glider operating area is 185 km \u00d7 130 km, roughly centered on the mooring array. Nominal AUV missions are two 14 km \u00d7 47 km rectangles, with the along-shelf rectangle intersecting the inshore end of the mooring array and the cross-shelf rectangle encompassing the mooring array.<\/p>\n

The Coastal Pioneer Array will be moving to the Southern Mid-Atlantic Bight in 2024.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

For more information, check out the Pioneer Array related news stories.<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Sites<\/h2>\n

This array includes following research sites and platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Key<\/th>\nSite Name<\/th>\nWater Depth<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nCentral Profiler Mooring<\/span><\/a> (CP01CNPM)<\/small><\/td>\n130 meters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nCentral Surface Mooring<\/span><\/a> (CP01CNSM)<\/small><\/td>\n133 meters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCentral Surface Piercing Profiler Mooring<\/span><\/a> (CP01CNSP)<\/small><\/td>\n133 meters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nCentral Inshore Profiler Mooring<\/span><\/a> (CP02PMCI)<\/small><\/td>\n127 meters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nCentral Offshore Profiler Mooring<\/span><\/a> (CP02PMCO)<\/small><\/td>\n148 meters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nUpstream Inshore Profiler Mooring<\/span><\/a> (CP02PMUI)<\/small><\/td>\n95 meters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nUpstream Offshore Profiler Mooring<\/span><\/a> (CP02PMUO)<\/small><\/td>\n452 meters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nInshore Profiler Mooring<\/span><\/a> (CP03ISPM)<\/small><\/td>\n90 meters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nInshore Surface Mooring<\/span><\/a> (CP03ISSM)<\/small><\/td>\n92 meters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nInshore Surface Piercing Profiler Mooring<\/span><\/a> (CP03ISSP)<\/small><\/td>\n92 meters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nOffshore Profiler Mooring<\/span><\/a> (CP04OSPM)<\/small><\/td>\n453 meters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nOffshore Surface Mooring<\/span><\/a> (CP04OSSM)<\/small><\/td>\n450 meters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMobile Assets<\/span><\/a> (CP05MOAS)<\/small><\/td>\n1,000 meters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Research Themes<\/h2>\n