Mooring Activities at SAMS NERC 4 th Moorings Workshop 15 th /16 th May 2008

Mooring Activities at SAMSMooring Activities at SAMSNERC 4NERC 4thth Moorings Workshop Moorings Workshop1515thth/16/16thth May 2008 May 2008

Mooring Activities at SAMSMooring Activities at SAMSNERC 4NERC 4thth Moorings Workshop Moorings Workshop1515thth/16/16thth May 2008 May 2008

Colin GriffithsScottish Association for Marine Science

Oban, Argyll, Scotland.

Physics Group

Mark Inall

Toby Sherwin

Tim Boyd

Finlo Cottier

Andy Dale

Colin Griffiths

John Beaton

Estelle Dumont

Extended Ellett Line

Tiree Passage MooringMooring

Met Stations

Tide gauges

CTD Line

SST SSS Station

Tiree Passage Mooring 1981 - 2008

Faroe BankFaroe-Shetland Channel

Cirolana Deep

Ymir

Ridge

Wyville-Thom

son

Ridge

-0.34 °C60 cm/s

3.17 °C120 cm/s

Wyville Thomson Ridge Overflow Water cascade route

Acoustic Doppler Current Meter

4 acoustic heads

Temperature sensor

Recording unit

ICE EDGE PROGRAMME: Study area

Rijpfjorden: CLEOPATRA,Ice amphipods

Isfjorden: Ice amphipods,Leptoclinus maculatus

Kongsfjorden: MariClim

mooring

Mooring History• Lance – April 2002 • JCR – June 2002 • Mosby – Sept 2002• Jan Mayen – May 2003• GO Sars – Sept 2003• Mosby – August 2004• JCR – July 2005• Lance – June 2006• Lance – August 2007

•Temperature (full depth)•Salinity (3 depths)•Currents + ADCP (water column)•21-bottle Sediment Traps•Flourescence

Rijpfjorden field station