Current meter records from the Nares Experiment
(Subseabed Disposal Project, Nares Abyssal Plain)

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 file whose accession number is 1234 can be found on this disk as rcm01234.zip, and the netCDF version is stored here as rcm01234.cdf.

The data were recorded with Aanderaa RCM5 current meters.

See: R. Dale Pillsbury et al, Data Report for Current Meters on Mooring Nares-1, 1983-84; Nares Abyssal Plain. Sandia Laboratories Report SAND85-7215 prepared by the OSU College of Oceanography, January 1986.

accession lat lon instr depth mooring name dates parameters stranger netCDF
229 23.200 -63.982 725 Nares-1 15 Aug 83 - 20 Sep 84 s,d,t,p download download
230 23.200 -63.982 2950 Nares-1 15 Aug 83 - 20 Sep 84 s,d,t,p download download
231 23.200 -63.982 4800 Nares-1 15 Aug 83 - 20 Sep 84 s,d,t,a download download
232 23.200 -63.982 5800 Nares-1 15 Aug 83 - 20 Sep 84 s,d,t download download
258 23.247 -64.030 775 Nares-2 21 Sep 84 - 21 Nov 85 s,d,t,p download download
259 23.247 -64.030 1465 Nares-2 21 Sep 84 - 21 Nov 85 s,d,t,p download download
261 23.247 -64.030 4800 Nares-2 21 Sep 84 - 21 Nov 85 s,d,t,a download download
262 23.247 -64.030 5800 Nares-2 21 Sep 84 - 13 Aug 85 s,d,t,a download download
263 23.252 -64.035 715 Nares-3 23 Nov 85 - 03 Nov 86 s,d,t,p download download
264 23.252 -64.035 1450 Nares-3 23 Nov 85 - 03 Nov 86 s,d,t,a download download
265 23.252 -64.035 2875 Nares-3 23 Nov 85 - 03 Nov 86 s,d,t,p download download
266 23.252 -64.035 5800 Nares-3 23 Nov 85 - 03 Nov 86 s,d,t,a download download
The "a" parameter code stands for beam attenuation coefficient

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