Current meter records from JOINT 1
(NW African shelf, 1974)

The accession numbers shown below refer to the OSU Buoy Group's online database, where each file is identified by a number. In the database and also on this disk, each file has a name that encodes its accession number. Thus the ASCII (stranger format) version of the current meter record whose accession number is 1234 can be found on this disk as rcm01234.zip, and the netCDF version is stored here as rcm01234.cdf. In wind records the three-character prefix is "met" rather than "rcm".

These data were recorded by Aanderaa RCM4 and RCM5 current meters, and by Aanderaa dataloggers.

See R.D.Pillsbury et al, A compilation of Observations from Moored Current Meters, Vol VIII: Wind, Currents and Temperature off Northwest Africa along 20 deg 40"N during JOINT-1, February - April 1974. OSU Data Report 62, Reference 74-20.

*Accessions 8007 through 8012 were recorded by meteorological buoys that measured wind speed, wind direction and air temperature at a height of about 2m, and surface water temperature.