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WOCE_Version:
3.0
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CONVENTIONS:
COARDS/WOCE
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DATA_TYPE:
TRACK
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DATA_SUB_TYPE:
SADCP
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INST_TYPE:
SADCP
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DATA_ORIGIN:
UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND
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EXPOCODE:
none
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WOCE_ID:
none
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CRUISE_NAME:
OLE92.FALL
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DAC_ID:
00090
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FILE_SOURCE:
00090.sub
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file_date:
12 Apr 2002
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TIME_INTERVAL_BETWEEN_DATA:
hour
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TIME_AVERAGING_SCHEME:
mean centered on hour
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DEPTH_INTERVAL_BETWEEN_DATA:
10 meters
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DEPTH_AVERAGING_SCHEME:
mean centered on given depth
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SHIP_POSITION:
average over hour
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The following time, space, and depth ranges for this cruise
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are based on the complete high-resolution data set and does
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not agree exactly with the ranges of this averaged subset.
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#DATA_DATES: 1992/10/30 22:16:00 --- to --- 1993/01/28 20:18:00
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#LON_RANGE: 74.08 W --- to --- 64.57 W
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#LAT_RANGE: 32.20 N --- to --- 40.66 N
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#DEPTH_RANGE: 13 --- to --- 408 m
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#SAC_CRUISE_ID: 00090
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#PLATFORM_NAME: M.V. Oleander (commercial container vessel)
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#PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR_NAME: T.Rossby, E.Gottlieb, G.Schwartze
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#PI_INSTITUTION: University of Rhode Island
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#PI_COUNTRY: USA
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#PROJECT: The Oleander Project
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#CRUISE_NAME: ole92.fall
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#PORTS: Port Elizabeth, New Jersey --- to --- Hamilton, Bermuda
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#GEOGRAPHIC_REGION: Northwest Atlantic Ocean
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#PROCESSED_BY: Erik Gottlieb
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#NAVIGATION: gps
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#QUALITY_NAV: good
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#GENERAL_INFORMATION:
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CRUISE NOTES
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CHIEF SCIENTIST ON SHIP : none
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SIGNIFICANT DATA GAPS :*92/11/13-92/11/19 software failure
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*92/12/22-92/12/25 Christmas holiday
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*92/12/29-93/ 1/ 7 deck unit shut off
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*93/ 1/11-93/ 1/14 cable plug stressed
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* indicates total data loss
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SPECIAL SHIP TRACK PATTERNS : weekly ship schedule is as follows:
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Friday - leave Elizabeth (outbound)
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Sunday - arrive Hamilton
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Tuesday - leave Hamilton (inbound)
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Thursday - arrive Elizabeth
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COMMENTS : The only significant deviations from
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the weekly schedule are due to bad
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weather and port conflicts, and typically
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are no more than 24 hours.
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ADCP INSTRUMENTATION
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MANUFACTURER : RD Instruments (RDI)
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HARDWARE MODEL : RD-VM150
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SERIAL NUMBERS : ADCP = 536 / XDUC = 449
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FIRMWARE VERSION : 17.10
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<the following 5 fields are specific to a given hardware model>
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TRANSMIT FREQUENCY : 153 kHz
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TRANSDUCER CONFIGURATION : JANUS CONCAVE
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ACOUSTIC BEAM WIDTH :
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TRANSDUCER BEAM ANGLE : 30 deg.
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COMMENTS :
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ADCP INSTALLATION
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METHOD/DESCRIPTION OF THE
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ATTACHMENT TO THE HULL : A seachest (well) is flush-welded
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to the vessel's hull, so that the
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seachest bottom is flush with the
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hull's outer surface (the vessel bottom
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is perfectly flat and smooth with no
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protuberances). The transducer is
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mounted on a top-hat which is bolted
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on top of the seachest, such that the
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transducer bottom is slightly above
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the level of the seachest bottom.
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For transducer removal, a water-tight
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cover plate is bolted over the seachest
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opening.
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LOCATION/DEPTH ON HULL : The seachest is located several meters
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foreward and starboard of the vessel's
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center point. Vessel draught is load-
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dependent, and averages about 4.9 m
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Hamilton-bound (outbound) and 4.4 m
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Elizabeth-bound (inbound).
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Within the database, transducer depth is
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set to a mean nominal depth of 4 m for
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all legs.
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REPEATABLE ATTACHMENT : YES
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DATE OF MOST RECENT ATTACH. : 94/4/29
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ACOUSTIC WINDOW : NO
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COMMENTS : vessel length 117.5 m
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breadth 19.8 m
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weight 4950 tonnes
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speed 16 knots
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ADCP INSTRUMENT CONFIGURATION
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<these are normally documented automatically and are part of Codas database>
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ELZ NAR NBN (NYB) NBS SLS NWA BER
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DEPTH RANGE UPPER (m) : 9.5 9.5 9.5 (14) 11 20 20 9.5
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DEPTH RANGE LOWER (m) :15.5 15.5 47.5 (158) 107 404 404 15.5
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BIN LENGTH (m) : 1 1 1 (4) 2 8 8 1
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NUMBER OF BINS : 8 8 40 (38) 50 50 50 8
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TRANSMIT PULSE LENGTH (m) : 1 1 2 (4) 4 16 16 1
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BOTTOM TRACKING : no no yes (yes) yes no no no
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BLANKING INTERVAL : ... 4 m ...
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ENSEMBLE AVERAGING INTERVAL : ... 300 s ...
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SOUND SPEED CALCULATION : ... FUNCTION OF TEMP AT TRANSDUCER ...
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DIRECT COMMANDS : FH00001 E0005020099 CF25
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COMMENTS : A user exit program automatically resets
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the instrument configuration based upon
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geographic location. The locations are
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Port Elizabeth (ELZ), Verrazano Narrows
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(NAR), New York Bight (NYB), Slope Sea
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(SLS), Northwest Atlantic (NWA), and
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Bermuda (BER). NYB and SLS are separated
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by the shelf break, and SLS and NWA are
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separated by the mean location of the Gulf
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Stream. After 93/10/22 the NYB region
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is split into north and south regions
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(NBN and NBS). Prior to spring 1993
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pulse length, bin length, and number of
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bins were varied to find the optimal
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value listed above. During 93/6/25-
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93/8/12 a small region named test near
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the center of the NWA region and
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having an ensemble interval of several
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seconds was used to observe the effects
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of waves on data quality.
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ADCP DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM
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SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS : RDI, Chris Humphries, Charlie Flagg,
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and Joe Lewkowicz
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SOFTWARE VERSIONS : DAS 2.48
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DATA LOGGER, MAKE/MODEL : Oak Microsystems (12 MHz 386sx)
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ADCP/LOGGER COMMUNICATION : serial
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USER BUFFER VERSION : ASCII
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CLOCK : PC clock
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COMMENTS :
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SHIP HEADING
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INSTRUMENT MAKE/MODEL : Anschutz
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SYNCHRO OR STEPPER : synchro before 93/6/17, stepper after
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SYNCHRO RATIO : 360:1
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COMPENSATION APPLIED : NO
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GPS ATTITUDE SYSTEM : Ashtech 3DF installed 94/9/24
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LOCATION OF ANTENNAS : Array located on port forward corner
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of flying bridge, in an L shape
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with about 3.5 m baseline distance
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between antennas.
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RIGID ATTACHMENT : YES - stainless steel rods clamped
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to brackets welded to rail.
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LOGGING RATE : 1 per sec
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COMMENTS : Prior to 93/4/15 the gyrocompass
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exhibited resets , where it would
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unexpectedly slew to 0 but then
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continue to track vessel heading.
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Since the vessel steams a very nearly
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constant heading, the resets were
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corrected for by taking the difference
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in headings before and after
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the reset and applying that difference
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as a heading misalignment angle.
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During 92/10/30-93/2/27 calibration
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values for heading misalignment and
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scale factor were obtained directly
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from bottom tracking each trip.
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Between 93/2/27-93/4/15 data are of
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very poor quality due to bad weather
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(see QUALITY ASSESSMENT ) and
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have not been calibrated. The
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reset problem was solved by using a
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separate repeater and computer to
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bypass the DAS-aquired gyrocompass
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heading. For calibration method
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after 93/4/15, see CALIBRATION .
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ANCILLARY MEASUREMENTS
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SURFACE TEMP AND SALINITY : thermistor at transducer; no salinity
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PITCH/ROLL MEASUREMENTS : none
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HYDRO CAST MEASUREMENTS : none
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BIOMASS DETERMINATION : YES - Using AGCAVE.COM
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DATE OF LAST CALIBRATION :
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CALIBRATION COEFFICIENTS :
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BEAM-AVERAGED AGC AVAILABLE?: YES
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CALIBRATION NET TOWS? : YES - Plankton recorder towed one
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trip per month
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COMMENTS :
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NAVIGATION
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TRANSIT : NO
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GPS : YES
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MAKE/MODEL : Magnavox MX4200
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SELECTIVE AVAILABILITY : YES
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P-CODE : NO
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DIFFERENTIAL : NO
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SAMPLE INTERVAL : 1 per sec
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LOCATION OF ANTENNA
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RELATIVE TO TRANSDUCER : antenna on flying bridge, roughly
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80 m aft, 8 m to port
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TIME OBTAINED RELATIVE TO
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START/END OF ENSEMBLE : end
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AVERAGING/EDITING APPLIED :
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LOGGED WITH ADCP DATA : YES - user exit program
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LOGGED INDEPENDENTLY : NO
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COMMENTS :
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OTHER :
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ADCP DATA PROCESSING/EDITING
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PERSONNEL IN CHARGE : E. Gottlieb
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SOUND SPEED CORRECTIONS : applied using transducer temperature
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DATE OF PROCESSING : 1993-95
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NOTABLE SCATTERING LAYERS : almost every trip a vertically migrating
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scattering layer is observed just off
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the shelf break
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COMMENTS :
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CALIBRATION
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GYROCOMPASS CORRECTION : YES - from bottom tracking
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WATER TRACK METHOD : NO - ship never stops during trip
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BOTTOM TRACK METHOD : YES
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AMOUNT OF TIME AVAILABLE : about 6 hours/trip (=about 12.5%)
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TOTAL No. CALIBRATION PTS: one/trip (after reducing residuals)
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TIME VARIANT :
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VELOCITY DEPENDENT : MAYBE - has not yet been observed
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HEADING DEPENDENT : YES - depending on outbound (heading
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about 135 deg. T) or inbound (about 315)
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OUTBOUND INBOUND
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NUMBER OF TRIPS : 21 19
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AMPLITUDE MIN : 1.001 1.001
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AMPLITUDE MEAN : 1.014 1.044
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AMPLITUDE MAX : 1.047 1.230
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AMPLITUDE STD : 0.012 0.055
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PHASE MIN : -1.61 0.21
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PHASE MEAN : -1.36 0.56
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PHASE MAX : -0.74 1.05
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PHASE STD : 0.21 0.19
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FINAL SELECTION AMPLITUDE : 1.0 1.0
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FINAL SELECTION PHASE : -1.4 0.6
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AGREEMENT WITH PREVIOUS
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CRUISES : see statistics above
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COMMENTS : Bottom tracking is done for about
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six hours each trip (while traversing
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the shelf), and after reducing residuals
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a single value of amplitude and phase
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is obtained for each trip. Statistics
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are done for all available trips (see
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above) and the final selection values
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(assumed constant over the entire trip)
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have been used to correct all trips.
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For calibration method prior to
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93/4/16 see SHIP HEADING .
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NAVIGATION CALCULATION
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NAVIGATION USED : gps
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REFERENCE LAYER DEPTH RANGE : bins 5 - 15
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FILTERING METHOD FOR
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SMOOTHING REFERENCE LAYER
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VELOCITY (FORM/WIDTH) : Blackman window, half-width = 0.5 hour
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FINALIZED SHIP VEL/POSITIONS
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STORED IN DATABASE : YES
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COMMENTS :
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QUALITY ASSESSMENT
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ON-STATION VS. UNDERWAY : All data underway, no stations. Quality
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ranges from excellent to poor depending
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on load and sea state.
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VECTOR, CONTOUR, STICK PLOTS: excellent to poor
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COMMENTS : Data quality is dependent upon load
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and sea state, most likely due to
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signal attenuation by a bubble layer
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under the hull (the hull bottom is
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perfectly flat). For a quiet seas
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outbound trips are of excellent quality
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and inbound are fair; for very heavy
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seas most data are poor. For moderate
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seas overall quality ranges from good
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to marginal.
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REFERENCES (DATA REPORTS,ETC) :
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Gottlieb, Rossby, Schwartze, Cornillon, and Flagg (1994). The Oleander
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Project First-Year Results: Gulf Stream ADCP Measurements from
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October 1992 to October 1993. Proceedings from the Atlantic
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Climate Change Program meeting, May 1994, Princeton, NJ. ed.
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Anne-Marie Wilburn.
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Gottlieb, Rossby, Schwartze, and Flagg (1995). The Oleander Project:
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Measuring the Gulf Stream using and ADCP mounted on a Volunteer
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Observing Ship. Proceedings from the Atlantic Climate Change
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Program meeting, May 1995, Miami, Florida. ed. Anne-Marie Wilburn.
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(both available upon request from Anne-Marie Wilburn, AOML/NOAA,
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4301 Rickenbacker Cswy, Miami, FL 33149 -or- wilburn@aoml.erl.gov)
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