Current meter records from Bussol Strait (Sea of Okhotsk Experiment)

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.str, and the netCDF version is stored here as rcm01234.cdf.

The data were recorded with Aanderaa RCM8 current meters, Sontek ADCPs and Seabird MicroCat temperature-conductivity recorders. An electronic data report is present elsewhere on this disk.

The following accessions are from the portion of the Bussol 1 ADCP record that was contaminated by surface reflections. We have included these files on this disk because portions of them, recorded during extreme blowover, may be useful in constructing constant-depth current records. The depths shown below and elsewhere in this document are the intended depths of the measurements; the actual depths were different and variable because of blowover.

The accessions listed below were made with MicroCat temperature-conductivity recorders. Each MicroCat was positioned immediately below an Aanderaa RCM8.