SNOMS Swire NOCS Ocean Monitoring System: Diary of the system development and installation on the MV Pacific Celebes in 2006 and 2007

The SNOMS project brings together the resources of the United Kingdom’s National
\nOceanographic Centre, Southampton (one of the world’s leading centres for marine
\nresearch) and The Swire Group (a major multinational corporation) to make a
\nsignificant contribution towards improving our understanding of the role of the oceans
\nin controlling concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and hence the worlds
\nclimate.
\nThe Swire Group Charitable Trust funded the design, assembly and installation of a
\nscientific data collection system on their ship the MV Pacific Celebes. The system is
\nnow providing data from areas where no or little data exists particularly in the Indian
\nOcean, Red Sea and Mediterranean. It links with and connects on-going observations in
\nthe Atlantic. Data from the system supports projects both at NOC and elsewhere
\nincluding the IOCPP (International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project).
\nThis report provides an illustrated diary of the progress of the project between signing
\nof the contract between the Swire Group and NOC in March 2006 and the installation of
\nthe working system on the MV Pacific Celebes in June 2007.
\nA new type of system for monitoring the partial pressure of CO2 at the sea surface had
\nto be developed which could run autonomously of NOC with only periodic servicing by
\nthe ship’s crew. This was done by designing a simple tank system to contain
\ntemperature, conductivity and dissolved oxygen sensors built by Aanderaa and the new
\nCO2 device the “ProCO2” developed by ProOceanus in Canada. This would be used
\nwith the ProOceanus total gas Pressure device the GTD.
\nThe system was assembled and tested at NOC before its first sea trial on the P&O ferry
\nMV Pride of Bilbao in November 2006. Modifications were made after this trial. A
\nlonger trial was carried out on the Pride of Bilbao from February to April 2007. The
\nsystem was shipped to Singapore in May 2007, and installation was completed in
\nJakarta on 4 June 2007.

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