INFORMATION FOR BODC SERIES REF. NO. 33785
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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
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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
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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