Denmark Strait Overflow (ACM8) This portion of the database contains 84 current meter records from 33 moorings. We have included here records from a number of moorings that were installed and recovered long before the official start of the WOCE project, but that in fact were part of a single, extended experiment that later acquired WOCE designation. You can view metadata and download the records by clicking on links in the tables below. A brief description of the experiment also is available. Each current meter record is identified below by its depth and the name of the mooring. You may want to look at a map of the array first 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. 1986 moorings Mooring Meter Depth metadata download 8606 1980 meters view metadata download record 8606 2530 meters view metadata download record 8607 1536 meters view metadata download record 8607 1936 meters view metadata download record 1987 Moorings Mooring Meter Depth metadata download 8701 919 meters view metadata download record 8701 1120 meters view metadata download record 8702 1247 meters view metadata download record 8702 1548 meters view metadata download record 8703 1585 meters view metadata download record 8703 1886 meters view metadata download record 8704 1754 meters view metadata download record 8704 2255 meters view metadata download record 8705 1869 meters view metadata download record 8705 2472 meters view metadata download record 8706 1903 meters view metadata download record 8706 2606 meters view metadata download record 8707 2032 meters view metadata download record 8707 2735 meters view metadata download record 1988 Moorings Mooring Meter Depth metadata download 8801 1622 meters view metadata download record 8801 1924 meters view metadata download record 8801 1965 meters view metadata download record 8802 1298 meters view metadata download record 8802 1641 meters view metadata download record 8803 998 meters view metadata download record 8803 1241 meters view metadata download record 8804 1733 meters view metadata download record 8804 2285 meters view metadata download record 8804 2345 meters view metadata download record 8805 1895 meters view metadata download record 8805 2509 meters view metadata download record 8806 1871 meters view metadata download record 8806 2646 meters view metadata download record 8806 2687 meters view metadata download record 8807 2052 meters view metadata download record 8807 2767 meters view metadata download record 8807 2808 meters view metadata download record 8808 2042 meters view metadata download record 8808 2857 meters view metadata download record 8808 2898 meters view metadata download record 1989 Moorings Mooring Meter Depth metadata download 8906 2421 meters view metadata download record 8906 2736 meters view metadata download record 8907 2229 meters view metadata download record 8907 2571 meters view metadata download record 8907 2614 meters view metadata download record 8908 2026 meters view metadata download record 8908 2443 meters view metadata download record 8909 1788 meters view metadata download record 8909 2090 meters view metadata download record 8909 2133 meters view metadata download record 8910 1402 meters view metadata download record 8910 1704 meters view metadata download record 8910 1747 meters view metadata download record 8911 1180 meters view metadata download record 8911 1382 meters view metadata download record 8911 1425 meters view metadata download record 1990 Moorings Mooring Meter Depth metadata download 9001 1198 meters view metadata download record 9001 1679 meters view metadata download record 9001 2108 meters view metadata download record 9002 1155 meters view metadata download record 9002 1906 meters view metadata download record 9002 1987 meters view metadata download record 9003 880 meters view metadata download record 9003 1231 meters view metadata download record 9003 1482 meters view metadata download record 9004 750 meters view metadata download record 9004 1182 meters view metadata download record 9005 680 meters view metadata download record 9005 981 meters view metadata download record 9005 1062 meters view metadata download record 9006 1634 meters view metadata download record 9006 2136 meters view metadata download record 9006 2638 meters view metadata download record 9006 2720 meters view metadata download record 9008 1249 meters view metadata download record 9008 1631 meters view metadata download record 9008 1983 meters view metadata download record 9009 1528 meters view metadata download record 9009 1670 meters view metadata download record 9009 1712 meters view metadata download record 9010 992 meters view metadata download record 9010 1394 meters view metadata download record 9010 1476 meters view metadata download record 9011 940 meters view metadata download record 9011 1124 meters view metadata download record Return to top of page. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brief Description This experiment was designed to measure the flow of cold, dense water southwestward across the Denmark Strait and into the Irminger Basin, where it becomes a component of the North Atlantic Deep Water. The water is drawn from intermediate depths in the Norwegian Sea, crosses a sill about 600 meters deep in the Denmark Strait, and continues southwestward, following topography, along the Greenland Slope. Beginning in September 1986, three linear arrays of current meter moorings were set normal to the Greenland Slope ( see map) with the specific aim of measuring downstream changes in speed, transport, and entrainment associated with this current. All of the moorings were instrumented with Aanderaa current meters; the longest records are about a year in length. The last meters in this component of ACM8 were recovered in July 1991. A description of the experiment and an analysis of the data can be found in "The production of North Atlantic Deep Water: Sources, rates, and pathways" by Robert R. Dickson and Juan Brown, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 12,319-12,341, 1994. The experiment also is discussed in "Deep-water renewal in the northern North Atlantic" by R. R. Dickson, E. M. Gmitrowicz, and A. J. Watson, Nature, 344, 848-850, 1990. Return to top of page. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Format of the current records These files have been compressed with the ZIP compression utility. After downloading them from the disk, you will need to expand them. On a PC, WinZip or Pkunzip will do the job. Other utilities are available for the Unix and Macintosh environments. After expansion, you will have ascii files in OSU's stranger format. The stranger format begins with several lines of header information that are meant to be machine-readable. They contain a Fortran format specification that will be useful in reading the file, a pointer to the first line of data, and a description of the data. Each line of the current record itself contains the time of the sample, the values recorded, and a line count. Please be aware that end-of-line in these files is a carriage-return plus line-feed (the PC convention). This means that in a Unix environment (where a single line-feed serves as end-of-line) you may want to remove the carriage-returns. Return to top of page. ------------------------------------------------------------------------