Water Quality Buoy Observations - Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System
Original (non-English) name
Acronym
Water Quality Buoy Observations - PacIOOS
Citation
Abstract
This Moored Autonomous Partial Pressure of Carbon Dioxide (MAPCO2™) buoy was primarily established to monitor ocean acidification within a tropical coral reef ecosystem in the Central Pacific, complementing a national array of moored carbon dioxide buoys across the Pacific, Atlantic, and Caribbean. Other important physical parameters are also monitored, including water quality conditions to help provide early indications of potentially polluted run-off from storm drainage, sewage spills, and soil erosion from land-based waterways such as streams and other outflows that lead directly into the ocean.