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Metadata Report for BODC Series Reference Number 47246


Metadata Summary

Data Description

Data Category Offshore sea floor pressure series
Instrument Type
NameCategories
Teleost Pressure Recorder  sea level recorders; water temperature sensor
Instrument Mounting fixed benthic node
Originating Country United Kingdom
Originator -
Originating Organization Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Bidston Laboratory (now National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool)
Processing Status banked
Online delivery of data Download available - Ocean Data View (ODV) format
Project(s) CONSLEX
 

Data Identifiers

Originator's Identifier SB51HP5
BODC Series Reference 47246
 

Time Co-ordinates(UT)

Start Time (yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm) 1982-08-23 04:00
End Time (yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm) 1983-01-22 15:00
Nominal Cycle Interval 3600.0 seconds
 

Spatial Co-ordinates

Latitude 58.19160 N ( 58° 11.5' N )
Longitude 9.95830 W ( 9° 57.5' W )
Positional Uncertainty 0.1 to 0.5 n.miles
Minimum Sensor or Sampling Depth 1870.0 m
Maximum Sensor or Sampling Depth 1870.0 m
Minimum Sensor or Sampling Height 0.0 m
Maximum Sensor or Sampling Height 0.0 m
Sea Floor Depth 1870.0 m
Sea Floor Depth Source -
Sensor or Sampling Distribution Fixed common depth - All sensors are grouped effectively at the same depth which is effectively fixed for the duration of the series
Sensor or Sampling Depth Datum Instantaneous - Depth measured below water line or instantaneous water body surface
Sea Floor Depth Datum Instantaneous - Depth measured below water line or instantaneous water body surface
 

Parameters

BODC CODERankUnitsTitle
AADYAA011DaysDate (time from 00:00 01/01/1760 to 00:00 UT on day)
AAFDZZ011DaysTime (time between 00:00 UT and timestamp)
PPSSRL011DecibarsPressure (measured variable) exerted by the water body by fixed in-situ pressure sensor and corrected using co-located air pressure data expressed to unspecified datum by subtraction of a constant

Definition of Rank

  • Rank 1 is a one-dimensional parameter
  • Rank 2 is a two-dimensional parameter
  • Rank 0 is a one-dimensional parameter describing the second dimension of a two-dimensional parameter (e.g. bin depths for moored ADCP data)

Problem Reports

No Problem Report Found in the Database


Data Access Policy

Open Data

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Narrative Documents

Teleost Pressure Recorder

This instrument was developed at I.O.S. Bidston. Each recorder consists of a Bell and Howell strain gauge or a Digiquartz pressure transducer. The strain gauge sensor uses a Bell and Howell type 4-306 transducer and operates as a phase shift oscillator whose frequency is controlled by the ratio of output to input voltage of the transducer Wheatstone bridge network. The quartz crystal pressure sensor consists of a convoluted bellows linked to a 40kHz quartz crystal resonator coupled by piezoelectric action to an electronic resonator.

The pressure and temperature recorder consists of an Aanderaa current meter type logger modified to accept input from a pressure sensor containing a Bell and Howell strain gauge or a Digiquartz pressure transducer and a platinum resistance thermometer.

The pressure and temperature transducers are mounted in the same heat sink for compatible data. The pressure sensors are mounted in a protective frame of dimensions 1.75m by 1.14m by 0.66m, attached to a ballast plate or frame. Teleost recorders are deployed as pop-up moorings and released from their ballast frames by firing a pyrotechnic release by acoustic command.

Data Processing Notes

Battery supplies ran out before recovery, thus no timing information available.

Instrument characteristics

Station B5/1

Teleost sensor 283/5
Nominal sampling interval 900 seconds
Integration period 900 seconds

IOS Data Processing of Off-Shore Pressure Recorder Data

Data processing consists of two stages:-

  1. Pressures have been sample rate reduced from the basic time step of the recorder to produce the hourly values and have been interpolated by a cubic spline to generate the value on cardinal hours.

  2. Instrumental drift has been removed and the drift free series is produced with an artificial mean value, usually of 100mbar.


Project Information

Continental Slope Experiment (CONSLEX)

The Continental Slope Experiment (CONSLEX) was a collaborative exercise between the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, Scottish Marine Biological Association, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food designed to study water movements across the Scottish continental slope.

The experiment ran from August/September 1982 to February/March 1983. The deployments, mainly current meter moorings, were made along a set of lines defined thus:

Line Position Number of
moorings
P 51° 41' N,15° 26' W to 51° 41' N,14° 55' W 4
A 57° 18' N,09° 53' W to 57° 23' N,08° 30' W 9
B 58° 11' N,09° 57' W to 57° 57' N,08° 50' W 7
C 59° 11' N,07° 43' W to 59° 00' N,07° 22' W 6
D 59° 46' N,06° 16' W to 59° 37' N,05° 58' W 4
E 60° 31' N,05° 00' W to 60° 05' N,04° 29' W 5
F 61° 27' N,02° 13' W to 61° 08' N,01° 33' W 6
G 63° 07' N,00° 00' W to 61° 30' N,00° 00' W 6

Bottom-mounted pressure gauges were deployed at either end of lines A-G and four temporary tide gauges were installed from Sligo (Eire) to Shetland. The current meter temperature sensors were supplemented by three thermistor chain deployments.


Data Activity or Cruise Information


No Data Activity or Cruise Information held for the Series


Fixed Station Information


No Fixed Station Information held for the Series


BODC Quality Control Flags

The following single character qualifying flags may be associated with one or more individual parameters with a data cycle:

Flag Description
Blank Unqualified
< Below detection limit
> In excess of quoted value
A Taxonomic flag for affinis (aff.)
B Beginning of CTD Down/Up Cast
C Taxonomic flag for confer (cf.)
D Thermometric depth
E End of CTD Down/Up Cast
G Non-taxonomic biological characteristic uncertainty
H Extrapolated value
I Taxonomic flag for single species (sp.)
K Improbable value - unknown quality control source
L Improbable value - originator's quality control
M Improbable value - BODC quality control
N Null value
O Improbable value - user quality control
P Trace/calm
Q Indeterminate
R Replacement value
S Estimated value
T Interpolated value
U Uncalibrated
W Control value
X Excessive difference

SeaDataNet Quality Control Flags

The following single character qualifying flags may be associated with one or more individual parameters with a data cycle:

Flag Description
0 no quality control
1 good value
2 probably good value
3 probably bad value
4 bad value
5 changed value
6 value below detection
7 value in excess
8 interpolated value
9 missing value
A value phenomenon uncertain
B nominal value
Q value below limit of quantification