Shipboard ADCP current measurements (38 kHz) during RV METEOR cruise M194

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Current velocities of the upper water column along the cruise track of R/V Meteor cruise M194 were collected by a vessel-mounted 38 kHz RDI Ocean Surveyor ADCP. The ADCP transducer was located at 5.0 m below the water line. The instrument was operated in narrowband mode (WM10) with a bin size of 16.00 m, a blanking distance of 8.00 m, and a total of 80 bins, covering the depth range between 29.0 m and 1293.0 m. Heading, pitch and roll data from the ship's motion reference unit and the navigation data from the Global Positioning systems were used by the data acquisition software VmDAS internally to convert ADCP velocities into earth coordinates. Single-ping data were screened for bottom signals and, where appropriate, a bottom mask was manually processed. The ship's velocity was calculated from position fixes obtained by the Global Positioning System (GPS). Accuracy of the ADCP velocities mainly depends on the quality of the position fixes and the ship's heading data. Further errors stem from a misalignment of the transducer with the ship's centerline. Data post-processing included water track calibration of the misalignment angle (-44.8863° +/- 0.4659°) and scale factor (1.0033 +/- 0.0079) of the Ocean Surveyor signal. The velocity data were averaged in time using an average interval of 60 s. Velocity quality flagging is based on different threshold criteria: Depth cells with ensemble-averaged percent-good values below 25% are marked as 'bad data'. Depth cells with velocities above 1.5 m/s are flagged as 'bad data'. Depth cells with a root-mean-square deviation between the measured ensemble-average velocity and a cell-wise running-mean velocity above 0.3 m/s are flagged as 'probably bad data'.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.965955
Related Identifier IsDocumentedBy https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7525334
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.965955
Provenance
Creator Kopte, Robert ORCID logo; Augustin, Nico ORCID logo; Atienza, David; Ouhssain, Mustapha
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2024
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 3105615 data points
Discipline Acoustics; Engineering Sciences; Mechanical and industrial Engineering; Mechanics and Constructive Mechanical Engineering
Spatial Coverage (36.028W, 16.803S, 40.904E, 25.489N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2023-10-12T09:14:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2023-10-29T04:58:00Z