INFORMATION FOR BODC SERIES REF. NO. 34334
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Sea Floor Pressure Gauge Inventory Number : 6971
Start Time : 23 Jul 1981 1322 GMT Latitude : 56deg 34.0min N
End Time : 25 Sep 1981 1237 GMT Longitude : 005deg 17.7min W
Nominal Cycle Interval : 900.0 secs Sensor Depth : 12.00m
Sea Floor Depth : 12.00m
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 : 8111/981/204
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Additional information stored with the data:
Station Upper Loch, Loch Creran
Clock gained 11 seconds over 72 days, 0.25 hours; the cycle interval and
time values have been corrected.
Instrument characteristics and calibration factors
Teleost Pressure Recorder, sensor DIG, serial number 284
Original sampling interval 15 minutes
Integration period 900s
Temperature coefficient taken as zero
Pressure sensitivity at 11.34degC 0.0631Hz/mb
To convert pressure to elevation the following
values should be used:
Density no CTD casts
Gravitational acceleration constant m/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
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