Current meter records from the Eastern Boundary Current experiment

The accession numbers shown below refer to the OSU Buoy Group's online database, where each file is identified by a number. In the database and also on this disk, each file has a name that encodes its accession number. Thus the ASCII (stranger format) version of the file whose accession number is 1234 can be found on this disk as rcm01234.zip, and the netCDF version is stored here as rcm01234.cdf.

Data in the first table below were recorded with Aanderaa RCM8 current meters. Those in the second table were produced by RDI Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers.

OSU's Eastern Boundary Current experiment was part of a larger effort that included WOCE component PCM2. PCM2 was conducted as a joint experiment by the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.

Both the PCM2 data and an electronic data report that describes the OSU portion of EBC have been included in the WOCE CDROM set. The electronic data report also is available elsewhere on the present disk.

The velocity records listed below were obtained with Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers manufactured by RD Instruments. The files included here contain interpolated values rather than the original measurments. The original records have been interpolated in time to the hour and half hour and in depth to approximately 25m, 50m, 75m, etc.