Mooring current and temperature and Salinity measurements

The Mooring LCM, a shared infrastructure located along the Levante Canyon of the Eastern Ligurian Sea . The mooring is placed at 600 m depth on the Levante Canyon, offshore the Cinque Terre Cinque Marine Protected Area at 44°05.443’N, 9°29.900’E . It was firstly deployed in October 2019 . LCM is a stand-alone mooring offshore, dedicated to the long term monitoring of hydrological properties of water masses . The first installation of the LCM was made possible thanks to the "Dallaporta" CNR Oceanographic Ship, allowing the observatory to be positioned at about 6.5 nautical miles off the coast. It operates in delayed-mode and is equipped with sensors that measure physical and biogeochemical parameters along the water column from 83 m to 580 m. Starting from the bottom , the offshore monitoring station is equipped with a sediment trap placed at a depth of 582m, which allows to obtain information on the supply of sediments  from the surface to the seabed. Further above, CTD probes (SBE37) are placed at three different depths, respectively at 579m, 335m and 85m. The LCM also includes two acoustic doppler current profilers (ADCP), placed respectively at 406m( Nortek Continental) and 325m ( WH Quarter Master) depth, which measures currents throughout the water column, in order to monitor the link of near-surface waters with the deep ones.