Kopte, Robert; Dierking, Jan; Schulz, Marco; Schütte, Florian (2024): Shipboard ADCP current measurements (38 kHz) during RV MARIA S. MERIAN cruise MSM126 [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.971775
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Abstract:
Current velocities of the upper water column along the cruise track of R/V Maria S. Merian cruise MSM126 were collected by a vessel-mounted 38 kHz RDI Ocean Surveyor ADCP. The ADCP transducer was located at 6.0 m below the water line. The instrument was operated in broadband mode (WM1) with a bin size of 16.00 m, a blanking distance of 16.00 m, and a total of 80 bins, covering the depth range between 38.0 m and 1302.0 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 (0.3964° +/- 0.6096°) and scale factor (1.0015 +/- 0.0115) of the Ocean Surveyor signal. The velocity data were averaged in time using an average interval of 120 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'.
Related to:
Kopte, Robert; Dierking, Jan; Schulz, Marco; Schütte, Florian (2024): Shipboard ADCP current measurements (75 kHz) during RV MARIA S. MERIAN cruise MSM126 [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.971773
Other version:
nc file: ADCP current measurements (38 kHz) during RV MARIA S. MERIAN cruise MSM126 (2024). msm_126_vmadcp_38khz.nc
Data processing report:
Kopte, Robert (2024): Upper-ocean acoustic Doppler current profiler (38kHz-ADCP) underway measurements during MARIA S. MERIAN cruise MSM126. Institute of Geosciences, Kiel University, msm_126_vmadcp_38khz_proc_report.pdf
Standard operating procedure:
Kopte, Robert; Betz, Maximilian; Anselm, Norbert (2022): SOP 38kHz ADCP aboard of RV Maria S Merian (vessel:maria_s_merian:adcp_38khz_1207). Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7525257
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DAM Underway Research Data (DAM_Underway)
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 32.495936 * Median Longitude: -16.936844 * South-bound Latitude: 29.282100 * West-bound Longitude: -17.512700 * North-bound Latitude: 32.845700 * East-bound Longitude: -15.350000
Date/Time Start: 2024-02-09T18:16:00 * Date/Time End: 2024-03-03T12:56:00
Minimum DEPTH, water: 38.0 m * Maximum DEPTH, water: 1302.0 m
Event(s):
MSM126_0_Underway-4 * Latitude Start: 32.620100 * Longitude Start: -16.844600 * Latitude End: 29.282100 * Longitude End: -15.350100 * Date/Time Start: 2024-02-09T18:16:00 * Date/Time End: 2024-03-03T12:56:00 * Elevation: -712.0 m * O2A Registry URI: hdl:10013/sensor.aef4e051-46f9-4999-921c-8c7914866078 * Campaign: MSM126 (Jellyweb Madeira) * Basis: Maria S. Merian * Method/Device: Vessel mounted Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler [38 kHz] (VMADCP-38)
MSM126_0_Underway-9 * Latitude: 32.601630 * Longitude: -16.888250 * Date/Time: 2024-03-02T15:00:58 * Campaign: MSM126 (Jellyweb Madeira) * Basis: Maria S. Merian * Method/Device: Vessel mounted Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler [38 kHz] (VMADCP-38)
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
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Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC) * Processing Level: PANGAEA data processing level 2 (ProcLevel2)
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3636050 data points
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