INFORMATION FOR BODC SERIES REF. NO. 33945
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Sea Floor Pressure Gauge Inventory Number : 6960
Start Time : 17 Oct 1977 1914 GMT Latitude : 53deg 45.8min N
End Time : 25 Nov 1977 1544 GMT Longitude : 004deg 07.0min W
Nominal Cycle Interval : 900.0 secs Sensor Depth : 48.00m
Sea Floor Depth : 48.00m
Positional Uncertainty : 0.1 to 0.5 n.miles
Depth Datum : Instantaneous
Data Category : Offshore sea floor pressure series
Instrument Type : Tide gauge (unspecified)
Instrument Mounting : Sea floor - fixed
Originator Laboratory : Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Bidston, UK
Originator's Identifier : 778/977/290
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Additional information stored with the data:
Station D, Irish Sea.
No times noted on recovery; therefore no corrections made for clock error.
Instrument characteristics and calibration factors
Aanderaa Pressure Recorder Type TG-2A, serial number 64
Original sampling interval 15 minutes
Integration period 104s
No temperature correction made
Pressure sensitivity 0.1878Hz/cm
To convert pressure to elevation the following
values should be used:
Density (estimated) 1026.881kg/m3
Gravitational acceleration constant 9.814m/s2
Three current meters were also deployed on this rig.
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The following additional documents apply to this series:
27731; I.O.S. Calibration and Data Processing of Off-Shore Tide Gauge Data
27806; Aanderaa Pressure Recorder Type TG-2A and WLR-5
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