It has also focused on understanding how the surface mixed layer responds to air-sea fluxes. Deployments are generally longer term than those of UOP and arrays consist of more than one mooring.
Some instrumentation is common such as acoustic releases.
The Moored Profiler is a newly operational instrument that attaches to a conventional subsurface mooring and travels along the mooring wire on a user-defined sampling schedule carrying sensors to measure the ocean's temperature, salinity and velocity. The sensors are used on CTD s, moorings and increasingly on floats. The float group has developed a ballasting facility that is part of our departmental calibration laboratory.