ADCP current measurements (75 kHz) during RV MARIA S. MERIAN cruise MSM121

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Upper-ocean current velocities were measured along the track of the cruise MSM121 (22 September — 16 October 2023) using a vessel-mounted acoustic current Doppler profiler (ADCP). The instrument was a Teledyne RD Instruments 75-kHz Ocean Surveyor, with the transducer was installed 6.0 m below the waterline. The instrument was operated in narrowband mode to achieve the maximum possible range. Velocity data were recorded in 100 8-m bins. The navigational data, as well as heading, pitch and roll data, were recorded together with the velocity measurements by the data acquisition software (VmDAS). The velocity data were converted into earth coordinates and averaged into one-minute intervals. A water track calibration was used (OSADCP_Toolbox) to determine misalignment angle (0.678°) and amplitude factor (1.010). The accuracy of the velocity data varies, and depends on the number of available good pings in each depth cell during one measurements interval.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.979947
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.48433/cr_msm121
Related Identifier IsDocumentedBy https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1425086
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.979947
Provenance
Creator Leimann, Ilmar ORCID logo; Mertens, Christian ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2025
Funding Reference Horizon Europe https://doi.org/10.13039/100018693 Crossref Funder ID 101059547 https://doi.org/10.3030/101059547 Updating ocean models to predict rapid climate change (EPOC)
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 4300410 data points
Discipline Acoustics; Engineering Sciences; Mechanical and industrial Engineering; Mechanics and Constructive Mechanical Engineering
Spatial Coverage (3.502W, -33.751S, 8.362E, -31.624N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2023-03-30T18:02:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2023-04-07T16:14:00Z