About the Instruments

Types of instruments and measurements:

• Moored Profilers (temperature, salinity, velocity)
• Current meters (VACMs) with Temperature/Conductivity sensors and upward-looking ADCP
• Shipboard measurements: CTD, CFCs, salinity, dissolved oxygen, I129, LADCP, ADCP

The full array of instruments was installed April 2004 with servicing as follows:

• Annual spring turnaround for profilers
• 2-year turnaround for VACMs
• Twice yearly shipboard measurements

GUSTO is a conventional current meter mooring sited along Line W at the mean axis of the Gulf Stream. This mooring is maintained by Dr. Michael McCartney with support from WHOI's Ocean and Climate Change Institute.