INFORMATION FOR BODC SERIES REF. NO. 40886 =============================================================================== Sea Floor Pressure Gauge Inventory Number : 7013 Start Time : 03 Nov 1974 1652 GMT Latitude : 48deg 09.9min N End Time : 21 Nov 1974 2222 GMT Longitude : 008deg 20.1min W Nominal Cycle Interval : 900.0 secs Sensor Depth : 267.00m Sea Floor Depth : 267.00m 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 : C2SP10/PDFH4 =============================================================================== Additional information stored with the data: Clock gained 11 seconds over 18 days 5 hours 29 minutes 49 seconds; the cycle interval and time values have been corrected. Instrument Characteristics Station C2 OSTG Mark I, number 10 Sensors OSC 1/17 (BODC Series Ref. 40886) OSC 1/19 (BODC Series Ref. 40898) Nominal sampling interval 900 seconds Integration period 890 seconds -------------------- I.O.S. Data Processing of Off-Shore Pressure Recorder Data 3 Data processing comprises 2 stages:- 1. Instrumental drift and depth are removed, thus the drift free series is produced with an artificial mean of zero. 2. Generally the pressure values have been obtained by integration and averaging over the sampling interval, followed by logging; hence the time value assigned to a data cycle has been chosen as the mid-point between the start and end time of each interval. Some pressure records have been sample rate reduced from the basic time step of the recorder to produce either hourly or 15 minute values, incorporating any timing corrections due to clock error. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following additional documents apply to this series: 27728; Off-Shore Tide Gauge Type I ===============================================================================