Shipboard acoustic Doppler current profiler data from the Southern Ocean JGOFS Process I cruise on R/V Revelle: Nov-Dec 1997 (R9711)


Principal investigators:  Jack Barth & Tim Cowles, Oregon State University

           Processed by:  Stephen Pierce, Oregon State University

                 Status:  final data set

Notes:  
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   This data set is also available at the NODC Joint Archive for
ADCP data (http://ilikai.soest.hawaii.edu/sadcp/).  The submission
to NODC contains the complete data set in binary form and full
processing details.

   Data quality is excellent in general.  The inherent short-term
random uncertainty for a 5-min, 16-m velocity is 2.5 cm/s at most.
This type of uncertainty will be reduced with further averaging in
depth or space.  The absolute velocity may also have an unknown
systematic bias of 1 cm/s.  In addition, the absolute velocity
has a random error due to navigational uncertainty of 3 cm/s
and is low-pass filtered to suppress motions with time scales of
less than 20 min (for features present throughout the 200-300 m
reference layer).  This translates to at most a 7-km horizontal
spatial smoothing of the reference layer velocities.

   The present submission is the commonly used simple ascii subset:
5-min average velocities in 16-m vertical bins.  The columns are
as follows:

Column 1 :     Yearday (1.5 == Jan. 1 at 1200 UTC)
Column 2 :     Depth of the bin center (m) 
Column 3 :     Latitude (decimal degrees) 
Column 4 :     Longitude (0-360, decimal degrees)
Column 5 :     East velocity (m/s)
Column 6 :     North velocity (m/s)

   All data records are good; there are no null values.  Missing
or poor-quality data have been omitted.

Questions, contact:
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Additional processing details in the NODC format:

#DATA_DATES: 1997/12/02 03:50:24 to 1997/12/31 23:55:07
#LON_RANGE:  173.734 E to 168.57 W
#LAT_RANGE:  64.744 S to 44.061 S
#DEPTH_RANGE:     57 to 300 m
#SAC_CRUISE_ID:
#PLATFORM_NAME: R/V Revelle 
#PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR_NAME: J. A. Barth and T. J. Cowles
#PI_INSTITUTION: Oregon State University
#PI_COUNTRY: USA
#PROJECT: Southern Ocean JGOFS (Joint Global Ocean Flux), AESOPS
#CRUISE_NAME: R9711 or APFZ cruise RR07 (SOJGOFS Process 1) 
#PORTS:  Lyttelton, New Zealand  --- to --- Lyttelton, New Zealand
#GEOGRAPHIC_REGION: Antarctic polar front zone, south of New Zealand along 170W
#PROCESSED_BY: Oregon State University
#NAVIGATION:  GPS (Pcode and attitude)
#QUALITY_NAV: 
#GENERAL_INFORMATION: 
CRUISE NOTES
  CHIEF SCIENTIST ON SHIP     :  
    INSTITUTE                 : Oregon State University
    COUNTRY                   : USA
  SIGNIFICANT DATA GAPS       : none
  SPECIAL SHIP TRACK PATTERNS : long transect along 170 W, 64.7-57 S

ADCP INSTRUMENTATION
  MANUFACTURER                : RD Instruments (RDI)
  HARDWARE MODEL              : RD-VM150 Narrow band
  TRANSDUCER SERIAL NUMBER    : 173 
  FIRMWARE VERSION            : 17.10
  TRANSMIT FREQUENCY          : 153.6 kHz
  TRANSDUCER CONFIGURATION    : JANUS CONCAVE
  TRANSDUCER BEAM ANGLE       : 30 deg.

ADCP INSTALLATION
  METHOD/DESCRIPTION OF THE
       ATTACHMENT TO THE HULL : 
  LOCATION/DEPTH ON HULL      :  5 m
  REPEATABLE ATTACHMENT       :  YES 
  DATE OF MOST RECENT ATTACH. :  Sep-97
  ACOUSTIC WINDOW             :  YES 

ADCP INSTRUMENT CONFIGURATION     
  DEPTH RANGE                 : 57 - 300 m (bin centers)
  BIN LENGTH                  : 16 m
  NUMBER OF BINS              : 28
  TRANSMIT PULSE LENGTH       : 16 m
  BLANKING INTERVAL           : 36 m
  ENSEMBLE AVERAGING INTERVAL : 150 s
  SOUND SPEED CALCULATION     : function of temp at transducer
  BOTTOM TRACKING             : NO
  DIRECT COMMANDS             : "FH00001" "E0004020099" "B005099" "CF63"

ADCP DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM
  SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS         : RDI
  SOFTWARE VERSIONS           : DAS 2.48
  DATA LOGGER, MAKE/MODEL     : 386
  ADCP/LOGGER COMMUNICATION   : GPIB
  USER BUFFER VERSION         : UH user exit "UE4", 1920 buffer version
  CLOCK                       : PC clock; reset if drift > 2 sec from GPS clock 

SHIP HEADING                      
  INSTRUMENT MAKE/MODEL       : Sperry MK-37 Mod D/E gyrocompass
  SYNCHRO OR STEPPER          : synchro
  SYNCHRO RATIO               : 1:1
  COMPENSATION APPLIED        : latitude: changed daily by bridge officer
                              : speed: 11 knots constant
  GPS ATTITUDE SYSTEM         : YES: Ashtech
    LOCATION OF ANTENNAS      : forward
    RIGID ATTACHMENT          : YES
    LOGGING RATE              : 1 per sec

ANCILLARY MEASUREMENTS            
  SURFACE TEMP AND SALINITY   : yes
  HYDRO CAST MEASUREMENTS     : yes
  SEASOAR CTD MEASUREMENTS    : no 
  RAW AGC AND SPECTRAL WIDTH  : no 
  BIOMASS DETERMINATION       : no
  BEAM-AVERAGED AGC AVAILABLE?: YES
    CALIBRATION NET TOWS?     : Yes

ADCP DATA PROCESSING/EDITING
  PERSONNEL IN CHARGE         : Stephen D. Pierce
  DATE OF PROCESSING          : final Dec. 1999

NAVIGATION
  GPS                         : YES
    MAKE/MODEL                : Trimble Tasmin P-Code
    SELECTIVE AVAILABILITY    : YES
    P-CODE                    : YES 
    DIFFERENTIAL              : NO 
    SAMPLE INTERVAL           : 1 per sec
    TIME OBTAINED RELATIVE TO
      START/END OF ENSEMBLE   : end
    LOGGED WITH ADCP DATA     : YES  - user exit program

CALIBRATION 
    GYROCOMPASS CORRECTION    : YES, profile-by-profile-rotation based 
                                     on the attitude gps HOFS (heading offsets)
    BOTTOM TRACK METHOD       : NO 
    WATER TRACK METHOD        : YES 
    FINAL SELECTION     : AMPLITUDE= 1.016   PHASE= -2.200
    SOUND SPEED CORRECTIONS   : YES, offset of -1.09 degrees applied 
         (based on underway bow thruster thermistor comparison)
                      : we used salinity mean from underway system: 32.33

NAVIGATION CALCULATION             
    NAVIGATION USED             : gps
    REFERENCE LAYER DEPTH RANGE : bins 10 - 15
    FILTERING METHOD FOR 
      SMOOTHING REFERENCE LAYER 
      VELOCITY (FORM/WIDTH)     : Blackman window function of width T= 30 min:
         w(t) = 0.42 - 0.5 * cos(2 * pi *t / T) + 0.08 * cos(4 * pi * t / T).
    FINALIZED SHIP VEL/POSITIONS 
    STORED IN DATABASE          : YES 

 GENERAL_ASSESSMENT             : 
    ON-STATION VS. UNDERWAY     : good
    VECTOR, CONTOUR, STICK PLOTS: good
    COMMENTS                    : Data quality good in general;
relatively large blanking interval was necessary to reduce a 
ringing problem.