Animate - Atlantic Network of Interdisciplinary Moorings and Time-series for Europe

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.

- November 2006 Deployment

30 March 2007
The mooring is currently being serviced. These pages will be updated when the mooring has been redeployed.
November 2006
The ESTOC and DOLAN moorings were successfully serviced by the crew and scientists on board the Research Vessel Poseidon cruise P344-2. Meteorological and oceanographic data are being received via satellite in near real-time and are quality controlled and then plotted as the following graphs.


April 2002	April 2003

October 2003	April 2004

December 2004	March 2005

November 2005	March 2006

November 2006	March 2007

November 2007

Weather

Sea Temperature

Salinity

Click on the Button to
extract a subset of all weather data collected

Click on the Button to
extract a subset of microcat data collected

Diagram of Mooring as deployed 2006-2007

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

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.