INFORMATION FOR BODC SERIES REF. NO. 33785 =============================================================================== Sea Floor Pressure Gauge Inventory Number : 6974 Start Time : 02 Nov 1974 0000 GMT Latitude : 59deg 46.9min N End Time : 19 Nov 1974 0800 GMT Longitude : 000deg 00.5min W Nominal Cycle Interval : 3600.0 secs Sensor Depth : 137.00m Sea Floor Depth : 137.00m 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 : 744/974/306 =============================================================================== Additional information stored with the data: Station H, Northern North Sea The tide gauge was trawled up some time after 1345h 19 Nov 1974 and taken by a Danish fishing vessel to Hirtshals. No timing corrections have been applied. Both thermistor channels failed after 10 days although many values before this are suspect. No current meters were deployed at this site, therefore a constant temperature of 7.3degC was assumed. An interpolation program was used to produce hourly values, on the hour, of the pressure record. Instrument characteristics and calibration factors OSTG Type I logger 41, sensor FM 4882/32 Original sampling interval 15 minutes Integration period 890s Temperature coefficient 40.01Hz/degC Pressure sensitivity at 9.8degC 1.467Hz/cm To convert pressure to elevation the following values should be used: Density (from CTD casts) 1027.385kg/m3 Gravitational acceleration constant 9.819m/s2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following additional documents apply to this series: 27728; Off-Shore Tide Gauge Type I 27731; I.O.S. Calibration and Data Processing of Off-Shore Tide Gauge Data