Current meter records from PIRATA

Click here to download a zip archive that contains the current meter records. To see metadata and statistics click on the links in the rightmost column below. You can view a map of the mooring area here. The notation "VACM or VMCM" that appears below means that we know that the instrument in question was a VACM or a VMCM, but not which it was.

The ADCP data are hourly and were provided to us as hourly measurements. The VACM and VMCM data were provided with a time increment of either 10 minutes or 20 minutes. We have filtered these time series and subsampled to create series with a time increment of one hour. The filter was a Cosine-Lanczos low-pass filter with a high-end cutoff of about 6 cycles per day.

In a few cases the 10 or 20 minute data were from two successive moorings at the same location and depth, separated by one or two days. Where practicable we have joined successive files using a maximum entropy predictive method, to make a single continuous file.

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mooring
name
latloninstr depth
(meters)
water depth
(meters)
instr typedatesview
metadata
0N23W 0.000 -23.000 10 3930 VACM or VMCM 29 May 05 - 27 Aug 06 metadata
0N23W 0.000 -23.000 10 3930 VACM or VMCM 26 May 07 - 18 Oct 07 metadata
0N23W 0.000 -23.000 10 3930 VACM or VMCM 13 Oct 08 - 18 Jun 09 metadata
0N23W 0.000 -23.000 20 3930 VACM or VMCM 13 Oct 08 - 18 Jun 09 metadata
4N23W 4.000 -23.000 10 4110 VACM or VMCM 11 Jun 06 - 15 Nov 06 metadata
4N23W 4.000 -23.000 10 4110 VACM or VMCM 12 May 07 - 30 Dec 08 metadata
4N23W 4.000 -23.000 10 4110 VACM or VMCM 22 Jul 09 - 03 May 10 metadata
12N23W 12.000 -23.000 10 5010 VACM or VMCM 08 Jun 06 - 03 May 07 metadata
12N23W 12.000 -23.000 10 5010 VACM or VMCM 24 Oct 08 - 12 Jan 09 metadata
12N23W 12.000 -23.000 10 5010 VACM or VMCM 25 Jul 09 - 06 May 10 metadata
15N38W 15.000 -38.000 10 5020 VACM or VMCM 20 Jul 05 - 02 Jul 06 metadata
15N38W 15.000 -38.000 10 5020 VACM or VMCM 01 Dec 06 - 07 Dec 07 metadata
15N38W 15.000 -38.000 10 5020 VACM or VMCM 02 Apr 08 - 11 Mar 09 metadata
20N38W 20.000 -38.000 10 5970 VACM or VMCM 22 May 07 - 11 Oct 07 metadata
20N38W 20.000 -38.000 10 5970 VACM or VMCM 29 Oct 08 - 23 Jun 09 metadata
21N23W 21.000 -23.000 10 4570 VACM or VMCM 19 May 07 - 28 Jul 09 metadata
6S8E -6.000 8.000 10 4450 VACM or VMCM 28 Jun 06 - 10 Jun 07 metadata
10S10W -10.000 -10.000 10 3480 VACM or VMCM 15 Jun 05 - 26 Jun 07 metadata
10S10W -10.000 -10.000 10 3480 VACM or VMCM 26 Jun 07 - 14 Sep 08 metadata


ADCP at 0 deg North, 23 deg West

The shallowest bins were noisy and have not been included here.

mooring
name
latlonbin depth
(meters)
water depth
(meters)
instr typedatesview
metadata
0N23W 0.000 -23.000 40 3930 ADCP 14 Dec 01 - 20 Dec 02 metadata
0N23W 0.000 -23.000 45 3930 ADCP 14 Dec 01 - 20 Dec 02 metadata
0N23W 0.000 -23.000 50 3930 ADCP 14 Dec 01 - 20 Dec 02 metadata
0N23W 0.000 -23.000 55 3930 ADCP 14 Dec 01 - 20 Dec 02 metadata
0N23W 0.000 -23.000 60 3930 ADCP 14 Dec 01 - 20 Dec 02 metadata
0N23W 0.000 -23.000 65 3930 ADCP 14 Dec 01 - 20 Dec 02 metadata
0N23W 0.000 -23.000 70 3930 ADCP 14 Dec 01 - 20 Dec 02 metadata
0N23W 0.000 -23.000 75 3930 ADCP 14 Dec 01 - 20 Dec 02 metadata
0N23W 0.000 -23.000 80 3930 ADCP 14 Dec 01 - 20 Dec 02 metadata
0N23W 0.000 -23.000 85 3930 ADCP 14 Dec 01 - 20 Dec 02 metadata
0N23W 0.000 -23.000 90 3930 ADCP 14 Dec 01 - 20 Dec 02 metadata
0N23W 0.000 -23.000 95 3930 ADCP 14 Dec 01 - 20 Dec 02 metadata
0N23W 0.000 -23.000 100 3930 ADCP 14 Dec 01 - 20 Dec 02 metadata
0N23W 0.000 -23.000 105 3930 ADCP 14 Dec 01 - 20 Dec 02 metadata
0N23W 0.000 -23.000 110 3930 ADCP 14 Dec 01 - 20 Dec 02 metadata
0N23W 0.000 -23.000 115 3930 ADCP 14 Dec 01 - 20 Dec 02 metadata
0N23W 0.000 -23.000 120 3930 ADCP 14 Dec 01 - 13 Nov 02 metadata

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