PAP June 2018 | Porcupine Abyssal Plain Sustained Observatory

The June 2018 mooring was deployed on cruise JC165.

Below are the graphs generated in near-real time from data gathered at PAP and transmitted via iridium servers.

Click on an image to see a larger version.

Other data were collected at the site but were not transmitted in near-real time.
There were problems with the data from several of the Met sensors and so air temperature, humidity and wave parameters are not reported.

After recovery, data are archived at the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) and can be accessed at: BODC PAP Collection

Click here to view engineering graphs
Date and time of receipt of latest data

Oceanographic instruments on keel and at 30m on frame, operating in near real time

Temperature

Salinity

Sigma-t

Microcats with Oxygen

Temperature

Salinity

Sigma-t

Seabird Oxygen

Aanderaa Oxygen

Carbon Dioxide at 1m

Carbon Dioxide at 30m

Carbon Dioxide in air

Pro-oceanus GTD-Pro at 30m

Chlorophyll-a Wetlabs

Fluorescence Cyclops

SUNA Nitrate at 30m

Satlantic pH

Satlantic SeaFET pH

Internal pH

MetOffice UK Meteorological Data

PAP is part of the MetOffice network of weather buoys, click here to view the full network.

Air Pressure

Wind Speed

Wind Vectors

Irradiance 1

Irradiance 3

Mooring Position from Met Iridium Transmitter

Mooring Position - this cannot be updated at the moment, please refer to the Met Iridium Transmitter on the leftmost graph

Last 7 days Track - this cannot be updated at the moment, please refer to the Met Iridium Transmitter on the leftmost graph

Seafloor (4800 m)

Seafloor samples have been taken at the PAP site for over 20 years. Many methods can only be achieved from research ships but some (time-lapse camera) is autonomous for high resolution long-term sampling.

Method	Used for	Contact at NOCS, UK
Trawls	Megafauna (Species diversity, abundance and biomass	Dr David Billett
WASP	Wide-Angle Seabed Photography towed camera system	Dr Brian Bett
Cores	Boxcores, Mega- and Multicores for fauna and geochemistry	Prof. Andrew Gooday
Bathysnap	Time-lapse photography	Dr Brian Bett