WOCE component SCM3

The three deployments of SCM3 produced 31 current meter records. You can view metadata and/or download the records by clicking on links in the table below. Each current meter record is identified in the table by its depth and the name of the mooring. You may want to look at a map of the array to see where the moorings were. Some related publications also are listed here. If you download any of the current meter records you should review the note on file format. From here you can also move up one level to the list of WOCE experiments.

October 1991 - October 1992

mooringinstr depthinstr typedatesmetadatadownload
Central 670 meters Aanderaa RCM8 12 Oct 91 - 13 Oct 92 view metadata download record
Central 1570 meters Aanderaa RCM8 4 Mar 92 - 26 Sep 92 view metadata download record

March 1993 - January 1995 (AUSSAF)

mooringinstr depthinstr typedatesmetadatadownload
Central 300 meters Aanderaa RCM5S 17 Mar 93 - 26 Jan 95 view metadata download record
Central 600 meters Aanderaa RCM5S 17 Mar 93 - 22 Jul 93 view metadata download record
Central 1000 meters Aanderaa RCM8 17 Mar 93 - 25 Apr 94 view metadata download record
Central 2000 meters Aanderaa RCM5S 17 Mar 93 - 26 Jan 95 view metadata download record
North 1000 meters Aanderaa RCM8 17 Mar 93 - 02 May 94 view metadata download record
North 2000 meters Aanderaa RCM5S 17 Mar 93 - 14 Dec 94 view metadata download record
South 300 meters Aanderaa RCM8 17 Mar 93 - 14 May 94 view metadata download record
South 600 meters Aanderaa RCM5S 17 Mar 93 - 26 Jan 95 view metadata download record
South 1000 meters Aanderaa RCM8 17 Mar 93 - 12 May 94 view metadata download record
South 2000 meters Aanderaa RCM5S 17 Mar 93 - 29 May 94 view metadata download record
South 3200 meters Aanderaa RCM8 17 Mar 93 - 06 May 94 view metadata download record
West 300 meters Aanderaa RCM5S 16 Mar 93 - 27 Jan 95 view metadata download record
West 600 meters Aanderaa RCM5S 16 Mar 93 - 27 Jan 95 view metadata download record
West 1000 meters Aanderaa RCM8 16 Mar 93 - 10 Apr 94 view metadata download record
West 3200 meters Aanderaa RCM8 16 Mar 93 - 21 Apr 94 view metadata download record

March 1995 - March 1997 (SAFDE)

mooringinstr depthinstr typedatesmetadatadownload
North 300 meters Aanderaa RCM5 24 Mar 95 - 12 Mar 97 view metadata download record
North 600 meters Aanderaa RCM5 24 Mar 95 - 12 Mar 97 view metadata download record
North 1000 meters Aanderaa RCM8 24 Mar 95 - 13 Dec 96 view metadata download record
North 2000 meters Aanderaa RCM8 24 Mar 95 - 12 Mar 97 view metadata download record
Central 300 meters Aanderaa RCM8 27 Mar 95 - 21 Feb 97 view metadata download record
Central 600 meters Aanderaa RCM5 27 Mar 95 - 15 Mar 97 view metadata download record
Central 1000 meters Aanderaa RCM8 27 Mar 95 - 10 Dec 96 view metadata download record
Central 2000 meters Aanderaa RCM5 27 Mar 95 - 15 Mar 97 view metadata download record
Central 3200 meters Aanderaa RCM8 27 Mar 95 - 15 Mar 97 view metadata download record
South 300 meters Aanderaa RCM5 25 Mar 95 - 16 Mar 97 view metadata download record
South 600 meters Aanderaa RCM5 25 Mar 95 - 16 Mar 97 view metadata download record
South 1000 meters Aanderaa RCM8 25 Mar 95 - 16 Mar 97 view metadata download record
South 2000 meters Aanderaa RCM8 25 Mar 95 - 16 Mar 97 view metadata download record
South 3200 meters Aanderaa RCM8 25 Mar 95 - 16 Mar 97 view metadata download record

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Related publications

Rintoul, S. (1993): WOCE voyage looks at Southern Ocean's central climate role. ANARE News, No. 74, 3-4.

Rintoul, S.R., J.R. Donguy and D.H. Roemmich (1997): Seasonal evolution of upper ocean thermal structure between Tasmania and Antarctica. Deep-Sea Res. I, 44(7), 1185-1202.

Rintoul, S.R. and J.L. Bullister (1999): A late winter hydrographic section from Tasmania to Antarctica. Deep-Sea Res., 46(8), 1417-1454.

Phillips, H.E. and S.R. Rintoul (2000): Eddu variability and energetics from direct current measurements in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current south of Australia. J. Phys. Oceanog., 30(12), 3050-3076.

Rintoul, S.R., C.W. Hughes and D. Olbers (2001): The Antarctic circumpolar current system. In: Ocean circulation and climate: observing and modelling the global ocean, pp271-302. San Diego: Academic Press.

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Format of the current records

These files have been compressed with the ZIP compression utility. After downloading them, you will need to expand them. WinZip or Pkzip will do the job on a PC that is running Microsoft Windows. Under Linux, gunzip will expand these files. Other utilities are available for the UNIX and Macintosh environments (for example, unzip and/or gunzip are present on most UNIX systems). After expansion, you will have binary files in the netCDF format.

netCDF is a self-documenting format that can be accessed by a variety of software tools. You can click here to learn about netCDF and available software packages that can be used to read and manipulate netCDF files.

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