In April 2008 the ANIMATE network Observatories became part of the EuroSITES European Ocean Observatory Network.
Data shown here and subsequent data are available through the EuroSITES website www.eurosites.info
The ANIMATE site will not be updated further.

		- 2002 April Deployment
		The ESTOC mooring was deployed on 16th April 2002. See photos taken during the cruise by clicking here. The ESTOC equipment which went adrift at about 1700 on 21st May has now been recovered to Telde on Gran Canaria. The mooring had parted at a splice in the cabling. It should be possible to recover the remaining portion of the mooring and redeploy again on the next cruise to ESTOC which is scheduled to be in early December 2002. When the mooring is serviced more data will be recovered and further analysis will be posted on this site. Data were sent automatically every 4 hours via the ARGOS satellite system and are now available on a database to plot the following graphs. These graphs have been produced using the complete data set collected when the mooring was on station. Click on the small image to see the full size graph.		April 2002 April 2003 October 2003 April 2004 December 2004 March 2005 November 2005 March 2006   November 2006 March 2007   November 2007

Temperature	Salinity	Sigma-t
Profile of Temperature by Depth	Profile of Salinity by Depth	Profile of Sigma-t by Depth
Pressure	Chlorophyll-a	Click here to view graph of the data from the Hydroscat-2 sensor. The sensor was deployed at a depth known to have low nutrient levels and low productivity. The instrument recorded throughout the deployment period but the values indicate that there may be problems with the stability of the recordings made by the instrument at these very low levels of chlorophyll.
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If you use ANIMATE data in publications please acknowledge the ANIMATE Project quoting 'EU FP5 contract EVR1-CT-2001-40014'. Also, we would appreciate receiving a preprint and/or reprint of publications utilizing these data for inclusion in the ANIMATE bibliography. These publications should be sent to:
	ANIMATE Data Manager National Oceanography Centre, Southampton Waterfront Campus, European Way Southampton SO14 3ZH UK