UK shelf seas including sea lochs and Rockall Channel

Vertical velocity of the water column (currents); Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents); Temperature of the water column; Sea level

Sea level recorders; current meters; current profilers

DML's current meter data holdings can be divided into four main groups: 1) Deep sea measurements: Two long term moorings (4 current meters) either side of the Anton Dohrn Seamount, from the late 1970s to the early 1980s. Also limited work has been carried out in the Faroe Shetland Channel. Slope current measurements have been carried out with IOSDL (now SOC), POL and the Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen, during the CONSLEX experiment of 1982/1983. 2) Shelf sea measurements: long term measurements of the Scottish coastal current have been made by current meters in the Tiree Passage. Various other measurements include those for the Autumn Circulation Experiment (ACE), the NERC North Sea Project and the Department of Energy. 3) Sea loch measurements: This includes short term (approximately 6 hours) and standard tidal measurements. These have been made in the Clyde Sea and Loch Linnhe in collaboration with UCNW and the Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen, to the south of Sleat and also as part of various fish farm studies. 4) Data collected as part of a CEC contract in Vigo, off Spain and in Bantry Bay, Ireland.

Scottish Association for Marine Science

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