Cape Terawhiti ADCP Dataset

Original focus was to capture ocean currents over a spring neap cycle in eastern Cook Strait, a location of strong tidal flows.

Location

• Depth 34 m of water off Cape Terawhiti, Cook Strait, New Zealand.
• 41o 16.689 S 174o 35.857 E

Instrument

• Recording Doppler Current Profiler (RDCP, serial number 0200) manufactured by AADI (Aanderaa) Norway.

Setup

• Upward looking
• 2 m bins at 1 m intervals
• 300 sec interval
• 100 pings
• Ping interval 740 mSec
• 25% duty cycle

Deployment

• declination            :+22
• start_time             :2010/08/25 08:45:00
• stop_time              :2010/10/07 13:35:00
• utc_offset             :+12

Header

•     printf,luout,'Experiment: Cape Terawhiti ADCP Dataset 2010'
•     printf,luout,'Location: 41o 16.689 S 174o 35.857 E'
•     printf,luout,'Water Depth 34 m'
•     printf,luout,'Cook Strait New Zealand'
•     printf,luout,'collected by NZ NIWA'
•     printf,luout,'Craig Stevens & Craig Stewart & Brett Grant'
•     printf,luout,'SN=0200 RDCP AADI ADCP'
•     printf,luout,'Time UTC'
•     printf,luout,'Data are in pairs of lines (ie 2 lines for every time step)'
•     printf,luout,'time and velocity magnitude cm/s'
•     printf,luout,'time and direction is true north deg'
•     printf,luout,'compass corrected for declination +22o and frame effects'
•     printf,luout,'top line is height above bed'