CVOO

Cape Verde Ocean Observatory (CVOO)

The Cape Verde Ocean Observatory (CVOO) mooring is a multidisciplinary mooring/ship based time series site in operation since 2006. and is, in conjunction with the Atmospheric Observatory (CVAO), one of the few global ocean/atmosphere observatories in the Tropical Oceans. The CVOO is an observatory infrastructure associated with the Ocean Science Centre Mindelo (OSCM) in Mindelo/Sao Vicente.

This interdisciplinary mooring (together with RD2, RD3) is designed to better understand of the role of eddies in the ocean, especially with respect to the CO2 source/sink function and biological carbon pump in coastal upwelling areas:

Long-term changes of tropical waters
Coupling of biogeochemical and physical processes in the oligotrophic open ocean
Characteristics of mesoscale eddies (e.g. “dead-zone” eddies) in the Northeastern tropical Atlantic
Investigation of frontal dynamics and submesoscale processes