Current meter and SBE records from WHOTS
(the Woods Hole - Hawaii Ocean Time Series experiment)

Click here to download a zip archive that contains all of the current meter and SeaBird records listed below. To see metadata and statistics click on the links in the rightmost column below. From here you can also move up one level to the previous page.

The time series we are providing here have a time increment of 30 minutes. These are filtered data that we made from the original measurements, which have time increments rangeing from 1 minute to 10 minutes. We thought it best in the interest of brevity and conserving space to filter and subsample the original time series, some of which are quite large. We used a cosine-Lanczos filter with a width of 12 hours. This is a sharp filter that removes aliased frequencies produced by subsampling. However, if you need the original data they are available for download on SOEST Hawaii's excellent website. Where necessary we clipped the beginnings and endings of the time series so that only the in situ portions are included here.

The NGVM alluded to below is the Next Generation Vector Measuring Current Meter, an improved version of the VMCM. These moorings also carried acoustic doppler current profilers, and some of the data from those instruments are available here on a separate page.

The WHOTS PIs have made the following request:

If you use our data in your project, we would appreciate your acknowledgement of the WHOTS project. The following should be cited in publications:

    This publication is based upon observations from the Woods Hole
    Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)-Hawaii Ocean Timeseries Site (WHOTS)
    mooring, which is supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
    Administration (NOAA) through the Cooperative Institute for Climate and
    Ocean Research (CICOR) under Grant Nos. NA17RJ1223 and
    NA090AR4320129 to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and by
    National Science Foundation grants OCE03-27513, OCE07-52606 and
    OCE09-26766 to the University of Hawaii.

A preprint and reprint of the publications utilizing WHOTS data would be appreciated.