The PAP1 mooring was redeployed deployed on 6 May on cruise JC071.

The activities can be found in the cruise blog.

The data received by satellite were processed within hours of recording and plotted in the following graphs.

After recovery, data were archived at the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) and can be accessed at: BODC PAP Collection. Please use the search term Porcupine or #5192 to find our data.

January 2013

Early in the morning of 29 December 2012 the PAP surface buoy became detached and started moving off station. Most fortuitously the RV Celtic Explorer is on a scientific cruise in the area, and had been due to carry out some essential maintenance on the meteorological sensors. The buoy has been located and recovered despite the wintry weather conditions.

July 2012

It appears that, after a period of working intermittently, the communication cables connecting to the sensor frame failed completely on 4 July. Meteorological data is still being sent and received, as well as some engineering data and readings from a single Microcat attached to the keel of the buoy. Many of the sensors at 30m will continue to log data, but that will not be recovered until the next service visit.

Click here to view engineering graphs


Temperature

Graph of Temperatures at various depths

Salinity

Graph of Salinity at various depths

Sigma-t

Graph of Sigma-t at various depths


Microcats with Oxygen

Deep Temperature

Graph of Temperatures at at deep Microcat

Deep Salinity

Graph of Salinity at deep Microcat

Deep Pressure

Graph of Pressure


Carbon Dioxide

Carbon Dioxide

Pro-oceanus Pressures

Pro-Oceanus sensor pressures

Aanderaa Carbon Dioxide

Aanderaa Carbon Dioxide

Chlorophyll-a Wetlabs

Chlorophyll-a : Wetlabs

Fluorescence Cyclops

Fluorescence Cyclops

Satlantic pH

Satlantic pH

Seabird Oxygen

Graph of Oxygen at various depths

Aanderaa Oxygen

Aanderaa Oxygen

ISUS Nitrate

ISUS Nitrate


MetOffice UK Meteorological Data

Air Pressure

Met Office Air Pressure

Humidity

Met Office Humidity data

Temperatures

Met Office Temperatures plotted with NCEP

Wind Speed/Direction

Met Office Wind data

Wind Vectors

Met Office Wind data as arrows

NCEP Wind

Met Office Wind data as arrows

Wave Height

Met Office Wave data

Wave Peak Period

Met Office Wave data

Wave Vectors

Met Office wave data


Sea Current Vectors

Sea Current

Sea Current Speed/Direction

Sea Current

Sea Current

Sea Current

Irradiance 1

Irradiance 1

Irradiance 2

Irradiance 2

Irradiance 3

Irradiance 3

Mooring Position

Mooring position

Last 7 days Track

Last 7 days Mooring track

Pressure

Graph of pressures from various microcats