Kopte, Robert; Krock, Bernd; Albinus, Michelle (2026): Shipboard ADCP current measurements (75 kHz) during RV METEOR cruise M218 [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.996950
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Published: 2026-09-03 • DOI registered: 2026-10-02
Abstract:
Current velocities of the upper water column along the cruise track of R/V Meteor cruise M218 were collected by a vessel-mounted 75 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 8.00 m, a blanking distance of 4.00 m, and a total of 100 bins, covering the depth range between 17.0 m and 809.0 m. Attitude data from the ship's motion reference unit were used by the data acquisition software VmDAS internally to convert ADCP beam velocities to geographic coordinates. The Python toolbox OSADCP (version 2.2.0) was used for data post-processing. Acoustic Interferences were identified based on outliers in the ADCP echo intensity data. Echo intensity data were cleaned accordingly and affected velocity cells were flagged to be removed prior ensemble-averaging. The ship's velocity was calculated from position fixes obtained by the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), taking into account lever arms of ADCP transducer and GNSS antenna. Accuracy of the derived water 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 processing included water track calibration of the misalignment angle (-46.3655° +/- 0.7917°) and scale factor (1.0023 +/- 0.0142) of the measured velocities. The velocity data were averaged in time using an average interval of 60 s. Depth cells with ensemble-averaged percent-good values below 25% are marked as 'bad data'.
Other version:
nc file: ADCP current measurements (75 kHz) during RV METEOR cruise M218 (2026). met_218_vmadcp_75khz.nc
Data processing report:
Kopte, Robert (2026): Upper-ocean acoustic Doppler current profiler (75kHz-ADCP) underway measurements during METEOR cruise M218. Institute of Geosciences, Kiel University, met_218_vmadcp_75khz_proc_report.pdf
Standard operating procedure:
Kopte, Robert; Betz, Maximilian; Anselm, Norbert (2022): SOP 75kHz ADCP aboard of RV Meteor ( vessel:meteor:adcp_75khz_2175g). Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7022755
Project(s):
AI BaseCamp - Helmholtz DataHub Earth & Environment (AI_BaseCamp)
DAM Marine Data - Research Vessels (DAM_ResearchVessels)
Funding:
Bundesministerium für
Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt (BMFTR), grant/award no. 03F1001B: Auf- und Ausbau Dateninfrastruktur und -management für Daten aus dem Betrieb deutscher Forschungsschiffe; Vorhaben: ADCP-Daten
Coverage:
Median Latitude: -46.961432 * Median Longitude: -72.855755 * South-bound Latitude: -55.172300 * West-bound Longitude: -75.828800 * North-bound Latitude: -36.565600 * East-bound Longitude: -66.705700
Date/Time Start: 2026-04-03T12:23:00 * Date/Time End: 2026-05-05T12:17:00
Minimum DEPTH, water: 17.0 m * Maximum DEPTH, water: 809.0 m
Event(s):
M218_0_Underway-2 * Latitude Start: -54.295500 * Longitude Start: -70.867100 * Latitude End: -36.573600 * Longitude End: -73.040700 * Date/Time Start: 2026-04-03T12:23:00 * Date/Time End: 2026-05-05T12:17:00 * Elevation Start: -353.0 m * Elevation End: -32.0 m * O2A Registry URI: https://registry.o2a-data.de/items/7480 * Campaign: M218 (CHL-A-HB) * Basis: Meteor (1986) * Method/Device: Vessel mounted Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler [75 kHz] (VMADCP-75)
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License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0) (License comes into effect after moratorium ends)
Status:
Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC) * Processing Level: PANGAEA data processing level 2 (ProcLevel2)
Size:
9534762 data points
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