Wyville Thomson Ridge Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) Mooring
Introduction
The Wyville Thomson Ridge is an area of the North Atlantic Ocean floor running in a south easterly direction from the Faroe Bank to the Scottish continental shelf. The most eastern pathway across the Wyville Thomson Ridge marks a noteable boundary between cold and warm deep water at the southern edge of the Faroe-Shetland Channel. To enable monitoring of transport across this region the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) deployed a succession of Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) moorings (occasionally with auxilliary instrumentation) in the region between 2003 and 2013. These moorings were situated approximately 1.2 km north-west of the formal Faroe end of the Fair Isle-Munken (FIM) line (at approximately 60.2°N, 8.9°W) and constitute part of a larger long term monitoring programme studying the nature of flow across the ridge, and the causes of its variability.
Moored data summary
The following table summarises the SAMS mooring deployments at the Wyville Thomson Ridge:
| Year | Cruise ID | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | PO300_2 | Ridge top mooring. Deployed with miniloggers. |
| 2003 | 1403S | Ridge top mooring. Deployed with miniloggers and a MicroCAT |
| 2005 | CD176 | - |
| 2006 | 0706S | - |
| 2006 | D312 | - |
| 2007 | D321B | - |
| 2008 | 0508S | Deployed with MicroCATS (which were not recovered) |
| 2009 | D340A | Mooring lost |
| 2011 | 0511S | - |
| 2012 | D379 | Deployed with MicroCAT |
References
Sherwin, T.J., Griffiths, C.R., Inall, M.E., and Turrell, W.R., 2008. Quantifying the overflow across the Wyville Thomson Ridge into the Rockall Trough, Deep-Sea Research, 55, 4, 396-404.
