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R/V Neil Armstrong approaching an Irminger Sea Global Array mooring.

R/V Neil Armstrong approaching an Irminger Sea Global Array mooring.
R/V Neil Armstrong approaching an Irminger Sea Global Array mooring.
R/V Neil Armstrong approaching an Irminger Sea Global Array mooring.
R/V Neil Armstrong approaching an Irminger Sea Global Array mooring.
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Kuo, James
R/V Neil Armstrong approaching an Irminger Sea Global Array mooring.
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07/01/2017
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 53, No. 1, pg. 44:
Below: The ship glides up to a Global Surface Mooring in the Irminger Sea in July 2017.
Image Of the Day caption:
The research vessel Neil Armstrong makes a close approach to assess a surface mooring deployed in the Irminger Sea southeast of Greenland as a part of the NSF-funded Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). The buoy uses batteries, solar panels, and wind turbines to power a number of meteorological sensors on its tower and oceanographic sensors under the water. The mooring is part of the OOI Irminger Sea Array, located in a region with high wind, large waves, and strong atmosphere-ocean exchanges that help drive Earths global ocean conveyor circulation system.
Photo by James Kuo
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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