Prydz Bay Current Meter Data 1986-1987

Six current meters of the eleven deployed were recovered with data intact. Mooring 2 was not recovered. Meter 7621 failed due to a fault in the tape drive. Data were read from Aanderaa tapes and processed to produce a calibrated data file. Further processing consisted of tidal height and spectral an...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: AADC (originator), AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia (resourceProvider)
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Australian Ocean Data Network
Subjects:
oceans
OCEAN CURRENTS
EARTH SCIENCE
OCEAN CIRCULATION
WATER TEMPERATURE
OCEAN TEMPERATURE
SALINITY
SALINITY/DENSITY
CONDUCTIVITY PARAMETERS
DATE
DEVICE IDENTIFICATION
DIRECTION
SAMPLE PERIOD
SEA CURRENT DIRECTION PARAMETERS
SEA CURRENT SPEED PARAMETERS
SPEED
TEMPERATURE
TEMPERATURE PARAMETERS
TIME
CURRENT METERS
MOORINGS
AMD/AU
CEOS
AMD
OCEAN &gt
SOUTHERN OCEAN
CONTINENT &gt
ANTARCTICA
GEOGRAPHIC REGION &gt
POLAR
Prydz Bay
Southern Ocean
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:https://researchdata.ands.org.au/prydz-bay-current-1986-1987/686796
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AADC-00046
http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/portal/download_file.cfm?file_id=954
http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=AADC-00046
Description
Summary:Six current meters of the eleven deployed were recovered with data intact. Mooring 2 was not recovered. Meter 7621 failed due to a fault in the tape drive. Data were read from Aanderaa tapes and processed to produce a calibrated data file. Further processing consisted of tidal height and spectral analyses. Calibrated files contain 5 lines of header information followed by the data in 14-column format. Scatter plots of U and V velocity, progressive-vector plots, temperature/time plots, stick plots, tidal current analyses, residual time series and power spectra have been produced from the data, and are presented in the report referenced above. This dataset contains current meter data from Prydz Bay, Antarctica. Current meters were deployed on 3 moorings around Prydz Bay between January 1986 and February 1987. Summary results and deployment details are in the documentation. Temperature and salinity were also recorded. Records are not continuous at each site over this time period. Each mooring contains three or four current meters, measuring water temperature, speed and direction, and for some meters conductivity. Moorings 1 and 2 consisted of four Aanderaa current meters with target meter deployment depths of 200m, 350m, 500 m and near bottom. Mooring 3 had three Aanderaa current meters, with depths of 200m, 350m and near bottom. The fields in this dataset are: DEVICE IDENTIFICATION SAMPLE PERIOD TEMPERATURE PARAMETERS CONDUCTIVITY PARAMETERS SEA CURRENT DIRECTION PARAMETERS SEA CURRENT SPEED PARAMETERS DATE TIME TEMPERATURE (DEGREES C) SALINITY (Ppt) DIRECTION (degrees) SPEED (knots)

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