WOCE Component ACM7

This experiment produced 81 current meter records from 9 moorings. You can view metadata and download the records by clicking on links in the table below. Each current meter record is identified in the table by its depth and the name of the mooring. A brief description of the experiment also is available. You may want to look at a map of the array to see where the moorings were. If you download any of the current meter records you should review the note on file format. From here you can also move up one level to the list of WOCE experiments.

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Moorings K327, K339, and K359 - the southernmost mooring of each series - were in approximately the same location (see map). Similarly, Moorings K340 and K360, of the second and third deployments, were in approximately the same location. All three ADCPs of the second deployment and all three ADCPs of the third deployment produced good data. The ADCP records from the third deployment contain vertical velocity, as well as horizontal velocity.

Related publications

Schott, F.A. and C.W. Boening (1991): The WOCE model in the western equatorial Atlantic: upper layer circulation. J. Geophys. Res., 96(C4), 6993-7004.

Didden, N. and F. Schott (1992): Seasonal variations in the western tropical Atlantic: surface circulation from Geosat altimetry and WOCE model results. J. Geophys. Res., 97(C3), 3529-3541.

Schott, F., J. Fischer, J. Reppin, and U. Send (1993): On Mean and Seasonal Currents and Transports at the Western Boundary of the Equatorial Atlantic. J. Geophys. Res., 98(C8), 14353-14368.

Schott, F., L. Stramma and J. Fischer (1995): The warm water inflow into the western tropical Atlantic boundary regime, spring 1994. J. Geophys. Res., 100(C12), 24745-24760.

Rhein, M., F. Schott, L. Stramma, J. Fischer, O. Plahn and U. Send (1996): The deep western boundary current in the tropical Atlantic: deep water distribution and circulation off Brazil. International WOCE Newsletter #23, 11-14.

Fischer, J. and F.A. Schott (1997): Seasonal transport variability of the Deep Western Boundary Current in the equatorial Atlantic. J. Geophys. Res., 102(C13), 27751-27769.

Schott, F.A., L. Stramma and J. Fischer (1998): Transports and pathways of the upper-layer circulation in the western tropical Atlantic. J. Phys. Oceanog., 28(10), 1904-1928.

Stramma, L. and F. Schott (1999): The mean flow field of the tropical Atlantic Ocean. Deep-Sea Research II, 46(1/2), 279-303.

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netCDF is a self-documenting format that can be accessed by a variety of software tools. We have included here a Matlab script that can be used to read netCDF current records in an environment that contains the Matlab/netCDF interface created by CSIRO. You can Click here to learn more about netCDF.

We are aware that users who are unfamiliar with netCDF or who lack software to deal with it, may find the netCDF format more a deterrent than an aid to effective use of the data. We have included in this CDROM set a second disk that is identical to this one, except that the current meter records have OSU's "Stranger" format. The Stranger format, like netCDF, is self-documenting but utilizes the ASCII code. It is easily readable by both humans and computers; you may find it preferable to netCDF.

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