Southern Ocean Profiler Mooring

"The Southern Ocean Profiler Mooring is co-located with Southern Ocean Surface Mooring at the Apex site. Two identical Flanking Moorings make up the equidistant sides of a triangle of Moorings (50 km) from the Apex site. 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.
The Southern Ocean 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)."