Processed 2 minutes-averaged continuous VM-ADCP (vessel-mounted Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler) profiles during POLARSTERN cruise PS103

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This data set was collected during the R. V. Polarstern cruise PS103. Outside territorial waters, current velocities were measured nearly continuously along the ship's track with a vessel-mounted TRD Instruments 153.6-kHz Ocean Surveyor ADCP. The transducers were located 11 meters below the water line and were protected against ice floes by an acoustically transparent plastic window. The current measurements used a pulse of 2 seconds and vertical bin length of 4 meters. The ship's velocity was calculated from position fixes obtained by the Global Positioning System (GPS). Heading, roll and pitch data from the ship's gyro platforms and the navigation data were used to convert the ADCP velocities into earth coordinates. The accuracy of the ADCP velocities mainly depends on the quality of the position fixes and the ship's heading data. Further errors stem from a misalignment of the transducer with the ship's centerline. The ADCP data were processed using the Ocean Surveyor Sputum Interpreter (OSSI) software developed by GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel. The reference layer was set to avoid near surface effects. The averaging interval was set to 120 seconds.\nSampling interval setting: 2s; Number of bins: 80; Bin length: 4m; Pulse length: 4m; Blank beyond transmit length: 4m.\nData processing setting: Upper depth of reference layer: 30m; Lower depth of reference layer: 80m; Time average: 120s; Misalignment angle: 1.1300; amplitude: 1.0240.\nThe precision for single ping and 4m cell size reported by TRDI is 0.30m/s. Resulting from the single ping precision and the number of pings (most of the time 60) during 120seconds the velocity accuracy is nearly 0.04m/s.\n(Velocity accuracy = single ping precision divided by square root of the number of pings).

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.886295
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.2312/BzPM_0710_2017
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.875410
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.886295
Provenance
Creator Witte, Hannelore; Boebel, Olaf ORCID logo; Witte, Ursula
Publisher PANGAEA
Contributor Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven
Publication Year 2018
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
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Language English
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 5781138 data points
Discipline Acoustics; Engineering Sciences; Mechanical and industrial Engineering; Mechanics and Constructive Mechanical Engineering
Spatial Coverage (-60.546W, -71.368S, 18.332E, -33.858N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-12-16T17:02:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-01-30T19:26:00Z