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Nathaniel B. Palmer Shipboard ADCP data

The Nathaniel B. Palmer supports Antarctic oceanographic research funded by the US National Science Foundation. Ocean current profiles are routinely measured using hull-mount acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCP).

Presently two instruments are installed, the original 150-kHz "narrowband" instrument (NB150), and a 38-kHz Ocean Surveyor (OS38), both of which were made by Teledyne RD Instruments. The OS38 can be operated simultaneously with two types of pings: uncoded pings ("narrowband" or NB), and coded pings ("broadband" or BB). The former provides better range but less vertical resolution than the latter. The two types of pings are processed independently and presented here as separate data sets. In addition to the velocity measurements, transducer temperature measurements are shown. These should be regarded as providing only very approximate and qualitative information; the transducers are installed in fluid-filled wells, the temperature of which is often substantially higher than that of the seawater outside.

Acquisition and processing of these shipboard ADCP measurements is funded by the National Science Foundation grants OPP-9816483, OPP-0337375, and OPP-0838714.

For each cruise we provide a set of links to data plots (left column), to the data location in the NODC JASADCP (center, if present), and to netcdf files with the ADCP data and predicted barotropic tides (right column).




1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

2013

nbp1301 2013/02/09 to 2013/02/13 Punta Arenas, chile
nbp1302 2013/02/12 to 2013/03/07 McMurdo to McMurdo
nbp1302a 2013/03/07 to 2013/04/03 McMurdo to McMurdo
nbp1305 2013/06/25 to 2013/07/22 Punta Arenas, Chile to Punta Arenas, Chile
nbp1305 2013/07/27 to 2013/08/07 Valparaiso, Chile
nbp1307 2013/08/07 to 2013/08/10 Valparaiso, Chile
nbp1308 2013/08/07 to 2013/08/10 Punta Arenas, Chile
nbp1309 2013/08/11 to 2013/08/11 Punta Arenas, Chile to Punta Arenas, Chile

Thumbnail map showing labelled sections for which data are available
nbp1302
2013/02/12 to 2013/03/07
McMurdo to McMurdo

nb150
-- netCDF
os38bb
-- netCDF
os38nb
-- netCDF

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Thumbnail map showing labelled sections for which data are available
nbp1302a
2013/03/07 to 2013/04/03
McMurdo to McMurdo

nb150
-- netCDF
os38bb
-- netCDF
os38nb
-- netCDF

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Thumbnail map showing labelled sections for which data are available
nbp1305
2013/06/25 to 2013/07/22
Punta Arenas, Chile to Punta Arenas, Chile

nb150
-- netCDF
os38bb
-- netCDF
os38nb
-- netCDF

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Thumbnail map showing labelled sections for which data are available
nbp1309
2013/08/11 to 2013/08/11
Punta Arenas, Chile to Punta Arenas, Chile

nb150
-- netCDF
os38nb
-- netCDF

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1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013