Cape Terawhiti ADCP Dataset
Original focus was to capture ocean currents over a spring neap cycle in eastern Cook Strait, a location of strong tidal flows.
Location
- Depth 34 m of water off Cape Terawhiti, Cook Strait, New Zealand.
- 41o 16.689 S 174o 35.857 E
Instrument
- Recording Doppler Current Profiler (RDCP, serial number 0200) manufactured by AADI (Aanderaa) Norway.
Setup
- Upward looking
- 2 m bins at 1 m intervals
- 300 sec interval
- 100 pings
- Ping interval 740 mSec
- 25% duty cycle
Deployment
- declination :+22
- start_time :2010/08/25 08:45:00
- stop_time :2010/10/07 13:35:00
- utc_offset :+12
Header
- printf,luout,'Experiment: Cape Terawhiti ADCP Dataset 2010'
- printf,luout,'Location: 41o 16.689 S 174o 35.857 E'
- printf,luout,'Water Depth 34 m'
- printf,luout,'Cook Strait New Zealand'
- printf,luout,'collected by NZ NIWA'
- printf,luout,'Craig Stevens & Craig Stewart & Brett Grant'
- printf,luout,'SN=0200 RDCP AADI ADCP'
- printf,luout,'Time UTC'
- printf,luout,'Data are in pairs of lines (ie 2 lines for every time step)'
- printf,luout,'time and velocity magnitude cm/s'
- printf,luout,'time and direction is true north deg'
- printf,luout,'compass corrected for declination +22o and frame effects'
- printf,luout,'top line is height above bed'
