Cape Terawhiti ADCP Dataset

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'

Disciplines

Physical oceanography

Keywords

tidal channel, Cook Strait, marine energy

Location

-41.458056N, -41.458056S, 174.821389E, 174.821389W

Devices

Acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) 600 kHz

Data

FileSizeFormatProcessingAccess
ADCP data
940 KoASCProcessed data
How to cite
Stevens Craig, Stewart Craig, Grant Brett (2010). Cape Terawhiti ADCP Dataset. SEANOE. https://doi.org/10.17882/76439

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