INFORMATION FOR BODC SERIES REF. NO. 33969
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Sea Floor Pressure Gauge Inventory Number : 6975
Start Time : 01 Apr 1978 1114 GMT Latitude : 51deg 20.0min N
End Time : 13 May 1978 1444 GMT Longitude : 006deg 30.0min W
Nominal Cycle Interval : 900.0 secs Sensor Depth : 95.00m
Sea Floor Depth : 95.00m
Positional Uncertainty : 0.1 to 0.5 n.miles
Depth Datum : Instantaneous
Project : IOS Celtic Sea Experiment 1978
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 : 783/978/091
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Additional information stored with the data:
Station C, Irish Sea.
Clock gained 3 seconds over 76 days 2.25 hours; the cycles interval and
time values have been corrected.
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 at 7.60degC 0.1746Hz/mb
To convert pressure to elevation the following
values should be used:
Density (from CTD casts) 1026.9kg/m3
Gravitational acceleration constant 9.812m/s2
A thermistor chain was incorporated 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
Project Document : 27220