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author Hummels, Rebecca
Kopte, Robert
Fischer, Tim
Tuchen, Franz Philip
author_facet Hummels, Rebecca
Kopte, Robert
Fischer, Tim
Tuchen, Franz Philip
collection Datos científicos de ciencias marinas y ambientales
contents Current velocities of the upper water column along the cruise track of R/V Maria S. Merian cruise MSM117 were collected by a vessel-mounted 75 kHz RDI Ocean Surveyor ADCP. The ADCP transducer was located at 6.0 m below the water line. The instrument was operated in two different configurations: 1) narrowband mode with 8 m bins and a blanking distance of 8 m, with a total of 100 bins, 2) broadband mode with 5 m bins and a blanking distance of 5 m, with a total of 128 bins. 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 (configuration 1: -47.4696° +/- 0.7022°, configuration 2: -47.4676° +/- 0.9771°) and scale factor (configuration1: 1.0081 +/- 0.0114, configuration 2: 1.0086 +/- 0.0161) 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 following threshold criteria: abs(UC) or abs(VC) > 2.0 m/s, rms(UC_z) or rms(VC_z) > 0.3.
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spellingShingle Shipboard ADCP current measurements (75 kHz) during RV MARIA S. MERIAN cruise MSM117
Hummels, Rebecca
Kopte, Robert
Fischer, Tim
Tuchen, Franz Philip
Current velocity, east-west; Current velocity, north-south; DAM_Underway; DAM Underway Research Data; DataHub; DataHub Earth and Environment of the Helmholtz Association; DATE/TIME; DEPTH, water; Echo intensity, relative; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; Maria S. Merian; MSM117; MSM117_0_Underway-4; Pings, averaged to a double ensemble value; Quality flag, current velocity; Seadatanet flag: Data quality control procedures according to SeaDataNet (2010); Vessel mounted Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler [75 kHz]; VMADCP-75; WB Circ Brazil
Current velocities of the upper water column along the cruise track of R/V Maria S. Merian cruise MSM117 were collected by a vessel-mounted 75 kHz RDI Ocean Surveyor ADCP. The ADCP transducer was located at 6.0 m below the water line. The instrument was operated in two different configurations: 1) narrowband mode with 8 m bins and a blanking distance of 8 m, with a total of 100 bins, 2) broadband mode with 5 m bins and a blanking distance of 5 m, with a total of 128 bins. 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 (configuration 1: -47.4696° +/- 0.7022°, configuration 2: -47.4676° +/- 0.9771°) and scale factor (configuration1: 1.0081 +/- 0.0114, configuration 2: 1.0086 +/- 0.0161) 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 following threshold criteria: abs(UC) or abs(VC) > 2.0 m/s, rms(UC_z) or rms(VC_z) > 0.3.
title Shipboard ADCP current measurements (75 kHz) during RV MARIA S. MERIAN cruise MSM117
topic Current velocity, east-west; Current velocity, north-south; DAM_Underway; DAM Underway Research Data; DataHub; DataHub Earth and Environment of the Helmholtz Association; DATE/TIME; DEPTH, water; Echo intensity, relative; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; Maria S. Merian; MSM117; MSM117_0_Underway-4; Pings, averaged to a double ensemble value; Quality flag, current velocity; Seadatanet flag: Data quality control procedures according to SeaDataNet (2010); Vessel mounted Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler [75 kHz]; VMADCP-75; WB Circ Brazil
url https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.964686