The three deployments of SCM3 produced 31 current meter
records. You can view metadata and/or 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. You may want to look at a map of the array to see where the moorings
were. Some related publications
also are listed here. 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.
October 1991 - October 1992
March 1993 - January 1995 (AUSSAF)
March 1995 - March 1997 (SAFDE)
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Rintoul, S.R., J.R. Donguy and D.H. Roemmich (1997): Seasonal evolution
of upper ocean thermal structure between Tasmania and Antarctica.
Deep-Sea Res. I, 44(7), 1185-1202.
Rintoul, S.R. and J.L. Bullister (1999): A late winter hydrographic
section from Tasmania to Antarctica. Deep-Sea Res., 46(8), 1417-1454.
Phillips, H.E. and S.R. Rintoul (2000): Eddu variability and
energetics from direct current measurements in the Antarctic
Circumpolar Current south of Australia. J. Phys. Oceanog., 30(12),
3050-3076.
Rintoul, S.R., C.W. Hughes and D. Olbers (2001): The Antarctic
circumpolar current system. In: Ocean circulation and climate:
observing and modelling the global ocean, pp271-302. San Diego:
Academic Press.
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These files have been compressed with the ZIP compression utility.
After downloading them, you will need to expand them. On a PC
that is running Microsoft Windows, WinZip or Pkunzip will do the
job. Under Linux, gunzip will expand these files. Other utilities
are available for the UNIX and Macintosh environments (for example,
unzip and/or gunzip are present on most UNIX systems). After expansion,
you will have binary files in the netCDF format.
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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mooring instr depth instr type dates metadata download
Central
670 meters
Aanderaa RCM8
12 Oct 91 - 13 Oct 92
view metadata
download record
Central
1570 meters
Aanderaa RCM8
4 Mar 92 - 26 Sep 92
view metadata
download record
mooring instr depth instr type dates metadata download
Central
300 meters
Aanderaa RCM5S
17 Mar 93 - 26 Jan 95
view metadata
download record
Central
600 meters
Aanderaa RCM5S
17 Mar 93 - 22 Jul 93
view metadata
download record
Central
1000 meters
Aanderaa RCM8
17 Mar 93 - 25 Apr 94
view metadata
download record
Central
2000 meters
Aanderaa RCM5S
17 Mar 93 - 26 Jan 95
view metadata
download record
North
1000 meters
Aanderaa RCM8
17 Mar 93 - 02 May 94
view metadata
download record
North
2000 meters
Aanderaa RCM5S
17 Mar 93 - 14 Dec 94
view metadata
download record
South
300 meters
Aanderaa RCM8
17 Mar 93 - 14 May 94
view metadata
download record
South
600 meters
Aanderaa RCM5S
17 Mar 93 - 26 Jan 95
view metadata
download record
South
1000 meters
Aanderaa RCM8
17 Mar 93 - 12 May 94
view metadata
download record
South
2000 meters
Aanderaa RCM5S
17 Mar 93 - 29 May 94
view metadata
download record
South
3200 meters
Aanderaa RCM8
17 Mar 93 - 06 May 94
view metadata
download record
West
300 meters
Aanderaa RCM5S
16 Mar 93 - 27 Jan 95
view metadata
download record
West
600 meters
Aanderaa RCM5S
16 Mar 93 - 27 Jan 95
view metadata
download record
West
1000 meters
Aanderaa RCM8
16 Mar 93 - 10 Apr 94
view metadata
download record
West
3200 meters
Aanderaa RCM8
16 Mar 93 - 21 Apr 94
view metadata
download record
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North
300 meters
Aanderaa RCM5
24 Mar 95 - 12 Mar 97
view metadata
download record
North
600 meters
Aanderaa RCM5
24 Mar 95 - 12 Mar 97
view metadata
download record
North
1000 meters
Aanderaa RCM8
24 Mar 95 - 13 Dec 96
view metadata
download record
North
2000 meters
Aanderaa RCM8
24 Mar 95 - 12 Mar 97
view metadata
download record
Central
300 meters
Aanderaa RCM8
27 Mar 95 - 21 Feb 97
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Central
600 meters
Aanderaa RCM5
27 Mar 95 - 15 Mar 97
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Central
1000 meters
Aanderaa RCM8
27 Mar 95 - 10 Dec 96
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Central
2000 meters
Aanderaa RCM5
27 Mar 95 - 15 Mar 97
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Central
3200 meters
Aanderaa RCM8
27 Mar 95 - 15 Mar 97
view metadata
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South
300 meters
Aanderaa RCM5
25 Mar 95 - 16 Mar 97
view metadata
download record
South
600 meters
Aanderaa RCM5
25 Mar 95 - 16 Mar 97
view metadata
download record
South
1000 meters
Aanderaa RCM8
25 Mar 95 - 16 Mar 97
view metadata
download record
South
2000 meters
Aanderaa RCM8
25 Mar 95 - 16 Mar 97
view metadata
download record
South
3200 meters
Aanderaa RCM8
25 Mar 95 - 16 Mar 97
view metadata
download record
Related publications
Rintoul, S. (1993): WOCE voyage looks at Southern Ocean's central
climate role. ANARE News, No. 74, 3-4.
Format of the current records