| Summary: | The primary goal of our mooring observations was to document water, heat, and salt transports and water mass transformations on the Siberian continental slope. Primary objectives included quantifying the structure and temporal variability of the main water masses and obtaining detailed information about Atlantic Water layer dynamics and seasonal variations. There are two types of moorings used by our program. One type uses the McLane Moored Profiler (MMP), designed and manufactured by McLane Research Laboratories, Inc. Technical information and description are available at http://www.mclanelabs.com. Our other type of mooring is conventional, consisting of Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs) and Sea-bird Electronics (SBE) instruments.
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