Dataset: ADCP Transects
Deployment: MuLTI-2_Across_Shelf

ADCP Transects

Principal Investigator:

Philip O. Yund (Downeast Institute for Applied Marine Research and Education, DEI)

Contact:

Philip O. Yund (Downeast Institute for Applied Marine Research and Education, DEI)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Stephen R. Gegg (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Amber D. York (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Project:

An integrated theoretical and empirical approach to across-shelf mixing and connectivity of mussel populations (MuLTI-2)

Current State:

Preliminary and in progress

Data URL:

https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset-deployment/615119/data

Expand/Collapse All

Description

ADCP data collected during the MuLTI-2 Project

These data are served as tar.gz native RDI ADCP ENX files. The data are not raw, but partially processed. ENX files are ADCP single-ping data (plus Navigation Data) after having been bin-mapped, transformed to Earth coordinates, and screened for error velocity, vertical velocity, and false targets. These data should be ready for averaging. Users are responsible for processing the files after downloading them. These files can be opened and viewed with VmDAS or WinADCP.

These data were published in Conlon, et al. (2018).

Across-shelf cruises
MuLTI-2_ChandlerBayAcrossShelf_20140620_Ebb
MuLTI-2_ChandlerBayAcrossShelf_20140717_Flood
MuLTI-2_ChandlerBayAcrossShelf_20150715_Ebb
MuLTI-2_ChandlerBayAcrossShelf_20150709_Flood
MuLTI-2_EnglishmanBayAcrossShelf_20140808_Ebb
MuLTI-2_EnglishmanBayAcrossShelf_20140711_Flood
MuLTI-2_EnglishmanBayAcrossShelf_20150730_Ebb
MuLTI-2_EnglishmanBayAcrossShelf_20150717_Flood
MuLTI-2_FrenchmanBayUpperAcrossShelf_20140812_Flood
MuLTI-2_FrenchmanBayUpperAcrossShelf_20150610_Flood
MuLTI-2_FrenchmanBayUpperAcrossShelf_20150625_Ebb
MuLTI-2_FrenchmanBayUpperAcrossShelf_20150828_Ebb
MuLTI-2_FrenchmanBayUpperAcrossShelf_20150608_Flood
MuLTI-2_FrenchmanBayLowerAcrossShelf_20140812_Ebb
MuLTI-2_FrenchmanBayLowerAcrossShelf_20150626_Ebb
MuLTI-2_FrenchmanBayLowerAcrossShelf_20150825_Flood
MuLTI-2_MachiasBayAcrossShelf_20140627_Ebb
MuLTI-2_MachiasBayAcrossShelf_20150807_Flood
MuLTI-2_PigeonHillAcrossShelf_20140718_Flood
MuLTI-2_PigeonHillAcrossShelf_20150714_Ebb
MuLTI-2_PleasantBayAcrossShelf_20140712_Ebb
MuLTI-2_PleasantBayAcrossShelf_20140619_Flood
MuLTI-2_PleasantBayAcrossShelf_20150806_Flood
MuLTI-2_PleasantBayAcrossShelf_20150729_Ebb
MuLTI-2_WesternBayAcrossShelf_20140619_Ebb
MuLTI-2_WesternBayAcrossShelf_20140717_Ebb
MuLTI-2_WesternBayAcrossShelf_20150707_Flood
MuLTI-2_WesternBayAcrossShelf_20150714_Flood

Along-shelf cruises
MuLTI-2_ChandlerEnglishmanBaysAlongShelf_20140711_Ebb
MuLTI-2_ChandlerEnglishmanBaysAlongShelf_20150722_Flood
MuLTI-2_ChandlerEnglishmanBaysAlongShelf_20150706_Flood
MuLTI-2_FrenchmanBayAlongShelf_20150615_Ebb
MuLTI-2_PleasantWesternBaysAlongShelf_20140624_Flood
MuLTI-2_PleasantWesternBaysAlongShelf_20140712_Flood
MuLTI-2_PleasantWesternBaysAlongShelf_20150721_Flood
MuLTI-2_PleasantWesternBaysAlongShelf_20150706_Ebb
MuLTI-2_FrenchmanBayInner_20150827_Ebb
MuLTI-2_FrenchmanBayInner_20150624_Flood
MuLTI-2_FrenchmanBayInner_20150630_Ebb
MuLTI-2_FrenchmanBayInner_20150618_Flood

Mixed
MuLTI-2_MoosabecEastern_20150811_Ebb
MuLTI-2_MoosabecEastern_20150716_Ebb

Methods & Sampling

Dataset acquisition description

Segments for the ADCP data correspond to the intervals between the CTD stations. Segment 1 runs from station 1 to station 2, etc. There were approximately 13 transects and 4 data sets (2 ebb tide, 2 flood tide) for each transect.

In 2014 the ADCP data was collected in segments corresponding to the intervals between CTD stations, but in 2015 the instrument was left running continuously while the CTD casts were conducted.

Georeferencing is incorporated into the data from individual transects.

600 kHz RDI Sentinel: www.rdinstruments.com/sen.aspx

Data Processing Description

Dataset Processing Description

These data are served as tar.gz native RDI ADCP ENX files. The data are not raw, but partially processed. ENX files are ADCP single-ping data (plus Navigation Data) after having been bin-mapped, transformed to Earth coordinates, and screened for error velocity, vertical velocity, and false targets. These data should be ready for averaging. Users are responsible for procesing the files after downloading them. These files can be opened and viewed with VmDAS or WinADCP.

600 kHz RDI Sentinel: www.rdinstruments.com/sen.aspx

BCO-DMO Processing Notes
DATA VERSION 1:
* Generated from original files contributed by Phil Yund
* Original files were tar.gzipped and organized for retrieval by transect id
DATA VERSION 2:
* Data access updated to include all Across, Along, and Mixed transects. Data version1 was only one site, Machias Bay. * Data file download option added to download all the transect files in one tar.gz file.

More information about this dataset deployment

Funding

Award Number	Funding Source
OCE-1333755	NSF Division of Ocean Sciences
OCE-1333797	NSF Division of Ocean Sciences
OCE-1334022	NSF Division of Ocean Sciences

Instruments

Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler

Supplied Name: 600 kHz RDI Sentinel

Supplied Description:

600 kHz RDI Sentinel

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler

Acronym: ADCP

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/115/

Generic Description:

The ADCP measures water currents with sound, using a principle of sound waves called the Doppler effect. A sound wave has a higher frequency, or pitch, when it moves to you than when it moves away. You hear the Doppler effect in action when a car speeds past with a characteristic building of sound that fades when the car passes. The ADCP works by transmitting "pings" of sound at a constant frequency into the water. (The pings are so highly pitched that humans and even dolphins can't hear them.) As the sound waves travel, they ricochet off particles suspended in the moving water, and reflect back to the instrument. Due to the Doppler effect, sound waves bounced back from a particle moving away from the profiler have a slightly lowered frequency when they return. Particles moving toward the instrument send back higher frequency waves. The difference in frequency between the waves the profiler sends out and the waves it receives is called the Doppler shift. The instrument uses this shift to calculate how fast the particle and the water around it are moving. Sound waves that hit particles far from the profiler take longer to come back than waves that strike close by. By measuring the time it takes for the waves to bounce back and the Doppler shift, the profiler can measure current speed at many different depths with each series of pings. (More from WHOI instruments listing).

Global Positioning System Receiver

Supplied Name: GPS receiver

Supplied Description:

YSI CTD with built in GPS receiver

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Global Positioning System Receiver

Acronym: GPS

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/POS03/

Generic Description:

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a U.S. space-based radionavigation system that provides reliable positioning, navigation, and timing services to civilian users on a continuous worldwide basis. The U.S. Air Force develops, maintains, and operates the space and control segments of the NAVSTAR GPS transmitter system. Ships use a variety of receivers (e.g. Trimble and Ashtech) to interpret the GPS signal and determine accurate latitude and longitude.

Parameters

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
Deployment_Id	Deployment identifier	unitless	cruise_id
Transect_Id	Transect or transect segment identifier in format Project_BayDirection_Date_Tidal phase_Length; Project=MuLTI-2, Bay=Local bay name, Direction=AcrossShelf, AlongShelf, or not specified (when a mixture of both), Date in format yyyymmdd, Tidal phase=Flood or Ebb, Length=Segment ID number for 2014 data, in the format of Seg#, or All for 2015 data.	unitless	transect
Date_Start	Transect or transect segment start date (UTC time zone) in format yyyymmdd	unitless	date
Time_Start	Transect or transect segment start time (UTC) in format HHMM	unitless	time
Lat_Start	Transect or transect segment starting latitude	decimal degrees	lat
Lon_Start	Transect or transect segment starting longitude	decimal degrees	lon
Date_End	Transect or transect segment end date (UTC time zone) in format yyyymmdd	unitless	date
Time_End	Transect or transect segment end time (UTC) in format HHMM	unitless	time
Lat_End	Transect or transect segment ending latitude	decimal degrees	lat
Lon_End	Transect or transect segment ending longitude	decimal degrees	lon
Data_File	Link to data file (Files served as tar.gz native RDI ADCP ENX files.)	unitless	file_link

Database

Contribute Data

Dataset: ADCP Transects
Deployment: MuLTI-2_Across_Shelf

Dataset acquisition description

Dataset Processing Description

Database

Contribute Data

Dataset: ADCP TransectsDeployment: MuLTI-2_Across_Shelf

Dataset acquisition description

Dataset Processing Description

Dataset: ADCP Transects
Deployment: MuLTI-2_Across_Shelf