SCM4 (West Australia Basin Experiment)

This experiment produced 25 current meter records from 9 moorings. You can view metadata and/or download the records by clicking on links in the table below. A brief description of the experiment also is available. 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 first to see where the moorings were. We also have included a schematic section across the basin that shows the current meters. 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.

mooringinstr depthinstr typedatesmetadatadownload
Mooring 1 3175 meters Aanderaa RCM8 03 Jul 95 - 19 Mar 96 view metadata download record
Mooring 2 3197 meters Aanderaa RCM8 03 Jul 95 - 15 Feb 96 view metadata download record
Mooring 2 3600 meters Aanderaa RCM5 03 Jul 95 - 04 Jul 96 view metadata download record
Mooring 3 3285 meters Aanderaa RCM8 02 Jul 95 - 02 Mar 96 view metadata download record
Mooring 3 4085 meters Aanderaa RCM8 02 Jul 95 - 19 Apr 96 view metadata download record
Mooring 3 4485 meters Aanderaa RCM8 02 Jul 95 - 01 Mar 96 view metadata download record
Mooring 4 3196 meters Aanderaa RCM8 02 Jul 95 - 17 Mar 96 view metadata download record
Mooring 4 3596 meters Aanderaa RCM8 02 Jul 95 - 06 Apr 96 view metadata download record
Mooring 4 3996 meters Aanderaa RCM8 02 Jul 95 - 20 Feb 96 view metadata download record
Mooring 4 4796 meters Aanderaa RCM8 02 Jul 95 - 20 Feb 96 view metadata download record
Mooring 5 3200 meters Aanderaa RCM5 01 Jul 95 - 27 Aug 96 view metadata download record
Mooring 5 4000 meters Aanderaa RCM5 01 Jul 95 - 15 Jun 96 view metadata download record
Mooring 5 4801 meters Aanderaa RCM8 01 Jul 95 - 01 Feb 96 view metadata download record
Mooring 6 3197 meters Aanderaa RCM8 26 Jun 95 - 26 Mar 96 view metadata download record
Mooring 6 3997 meters Aanderaa RCM8 26 Jun 95 - 18 Mar 96 view metadata download record
Mooring 6 4397 meters Aanderaa RCM8 26 Jun 95 - 19 Feb 96 view metadata download record
Mooring 6 4797 meters Aanderaa RCM8 26 Jun 95 - 10 Mar 96 view metadata download record
Mooring 7 3200 meters Aanderaa RCM5 24 Jun 95 - 27 May 96 view metadata download record
Mooring 7 3997 meters Aanderaa RCM8 24 Jun 95 - 24 Aug 96 view metadata download record
Mooring 7 4797 meters Aanderaa RCM8 24 Jun 95 - 20 Nov 95 view metadata download record
Mooring 9 3200 meters Aanderaa RCM5 21 Jun 95 - 09 Aug 96 view metadata download record
Mooring 9 3600 meters Aanderaa RCM8 21 Jun 95 - 01 Feb 96 view metadata download record
Mooring 9 4000 meters Aanderaa RCM8 21 Jun 95 - 08 Dec 95 view metadata download record
Mooring 10 3120 meters Aanderaa RCM8 21 Jun 95 - 29 Feb 96 view metadata download record
Mooring 10 3520 meters Aanderaa RCM8 21 Jun 95 - 28 Feb 96 view metadata download record

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Brief description of SCM4

The objectives of this experiment were

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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. On a PC, WinZip or Pkunzip will do the job. Other utilities are available for the Unix and Macintosh environments. After expansion, you will have ascii files in OSU's stranger format.

The stranger format begins with several lines of header information that are meant to be machine-readable. They contain a Fortran format specification that will be useful in reading the file, a pointer to the first line of data, and a description of the data. Each line of the current record itself contains the time of the sample, the values recorded, and a line count.

Please be aware that end-of-line in these files is a carriage-return plus line-feed (the PC convention). This means that in a Unix environment (where a single line-feed serves as end-of-line) you may want to remove the carriage-returns.

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