The Data
Experiment: Synoptic Ocean Prediction
Experiment (SYNOP)
Deployment location: SYNOP Central Array
Deployment period: June 1988 to August 1990
Instrument spacing: 50 to 60 kilometers
Bottom Pressure:
- Pressure sensors mounted in inverted echo sounders (PIES)
- At 12 sites near to the current meter moorings
- Detided using the Munk and Cartwright (1966) response analysis
- Long-term drifts removed; see Watts and Kontoyiannis (1990)
- 40-hour lowpass filtered
Currents at 3500 m:
- At 12 sites during first year and 13 sites in second year
-
40-hour lowpass filtered
12oC isotherm depth:
- From inverted echo sounders at 24 sites
- 40-hour lowpass filtered
