Current meter records from Supercode

Supercode was the unofficial name of a large-scale experiment conducted along the continental shelf off Oregon and California between February 1981 and April 1984. In addition to the Supercode data we have included here a number of related current meter records from the same area.

The accession numbers shown below refer to the OSU Buoy Group's archive, where each file is identified by a number. Every file has a name that encodes its accession number. Thus the ASCII (stranger format) version of the current meter record whose accession number is 1234 can be found here as acc01234.str.gz, and the netCDF version is stored as acc01234.cdf.

Supercode went on for several years beginning in 1981. The earlier Supercode data were recorded with a time interval of 30 minutes. Where possible, we have included the original 30-minute data in this archive. Several of the original files were no longer available, however, when this archive was created; in these cases we were able to find filtered data with a time increment of 60 minutes, and these are the files that are on this disk. In the list below, asterisks indicate files that were recorded with a 30-minute interval but are present here with a 60-minute interval. The filter that produced these files was a 12 + 1 + 12 point cosine-lanczos filter that removes periodicities shorter than about 2 hours and passes those longer than 3.6 hours unattenuated.

Files marked with a plus (+) are ADCP data; the rest are from Aanderaa RCM4 and RCM5 current meters.

Reference: Donald W. Denbo et al, Current Meter Observations over the Continental Shelf off Oregon and California, February 1981 - January 1984. OSU Data Report 112, Reference 84-12.

The following files have been pieced together from shorter files. For example, Accession 7589, which contains hourly data from the shallowest depth at Pt Purissima Deep, was constructed by joining Accessions 7533, 7536, and 7538 (which are listed above). All of these composite files contain filtered data.

 * filtered data (hourly)
 + ADCP data