INFORMATION FOR BODC SERIES REF. NO. 34254
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Sea Floor Pressure Gauge Inventory Number : 6985
Start Time : 07 Sep 1980 1052 GMT Latitude : 48deg 47.7min N
End Time : 21 Oct 1980 1707 GMT Longitude : 007deg 01.4min W
Nominal Cycle Interval : 900.0 secs Sensor Depth : 125.00m
Sea Floor Depth : 125.00m
Positional Uncertainty : 0.1 to 0.5 n.miles
Depth Datum : Instantaneous
Project : IOS Celtic Sea Experiment 1980
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 : 8012/980/251
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Additional information stored with the data:
Station L, Celtic Sea.
Clock gained 19 seconds over 64 days, 0.75 hours; the cycle interval and
time values have been corrected.
Instrument characteristics and calibration factors
Teleost Pressure Recorder, sensor S/G, serial number 281
Original sampling interval 15 minutes
Integration period 900s
Temperature coefficient -0.2507Hz/degC
Pressure sensitivity at 8.9106degC 0.0375Hz/mb
To convert pressure to elevation the following
values should be used:
Density (from CTD casts) 1026.69kg/m3
Gravitational acceleration constant 9.810m/s2
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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
27840; Teleost Pressure Recorder
Project Document : 28542
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