Metadata Report for BODC Series Reference Number 47295

• Metadata Summary

• Problem Reports

• Data Access Policy

• Narrative Documents

• Project Information

• Data Activity or Cruise Information

• Fixed Station Information

• BODC Quality Flags

• SeaDataNet Quality Flags

Metadata Summary

Problem Reports

No Problem Report Found in the Database

Data Access Policy

Open Data supplied by Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)

You must always use the following attribution statement to acknowledge the source of the information: "Contains data supplied by Natural Environment Research Council."

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

Clock lost 1 minute 32 seconds over 169 days 5 hours 1 minute 32 seconds; original cycle interval and time values have been corrected.

Instrument characteristics

Station C4/2

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:

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

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SeaDataNet Quality Control Flags

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