Upper Ocean Mooring Data Repository - The Subduction Experiment
Water Temperatures

Overview:

Locations: NW: 33N 34W, NE: 33N 22W, C: 25.5N 29W, SW: 18N 34W, SE: 18N 22W
Duration: 2 years, June 1991 to June 1993
Sample Rate: Data presented is at 15 minutes
Variables: Water temperature
Instrumentation: All instruments on the list of subsurface instruments measure temperature.
Processing Notes: are available in a plain text file.
Time Series Plots are not yet on-line.

Download Subduction Water Temperature Data

The subsurface data from the Subduction Experiment includes values from different instrument types with varying accuracy. Please be advised that this data is being offered with limited quality assurance.

Caveats

There are apparent temperature inversions in these datasets, and only some are geophysical events; the remainder are artifacts of the instrument characteristics; sensor and clock drift, and limited calibration opportunities due to heavy instrument re-deployment. Because these moorings lacked salinity sensors, we are unable to use density to check these errors, so we present the data in raw form.

Please consult the instrument tables for details on the source of the data; thermisters and temperature circuitry in VMCMs had self heating problems that resulted in errors up to tenths of a degree.

Please read the downloading tips and the description of format options. The ASCII files require the metadata files for column identification and depth information.

Download a single gzipped tar file containing all temperature metadata and ASCII files or select from the table below.

Northeast Mooring

# MetaData EPIC (NetCDF) Compressed ASCII ASCII
1
subne1t.meta
subne1t.epic
subne1t.asc.gz
subne1t.asc
2
subne2t.meta
subne2t.epic
subne2t.asc.gz
subne2t.asc
3
subne3t.meta
subne3t.epic
subne3t.asc.gz
subne3t.asc

Northwest Mooring

# MetaData EPIC (NetCDF) Compressed ASCII ASCII
1
subnw1t.meta
subnw1t.epic
subnw1t.asc.gz
subnw1t.asc
2
subnw2t.meta
subnw2t.epic
subnw2t.asc.gz
subnw2t.asc
3
subnw3t.meta
subnw3t.epic
subnw3t.asc.gz
subnw3t.asc

Central Mooring

# MetaData EPIC (NetCDF) Compressed ASCII ASCII
1
subc1t.meta
subc1t.epic
subc1t.asc.gz
subc1t.asc
2
subc2t.meta
subc2t.epic
subc2t.asc.gz
subc2t.asc
3
subc3t.meta
subc3t.epic
subc3t.asc.gz
subc3t.asc

Southeast Mooring

# MetaData EPIC (NetCDF) Compressed ASCII ASCII
1
subse1t.meta
subse1t.epic
subse1t.asc.gz
subse1t.asc
2
subse2t.meta
subse2t.epic
subse2t.asc.gz
subse2t.asc
3
subse3t.meta
subse3t.epic
subse3t.asc.gz
subse3t.asc

Southwest Mooring

# MetaData EPIC (NetCDF) Compressed ASCII ASCII
1
subsw1t.meta
subsw1t.epic
subsw1t.asc.gz
subsw1t.asc
2
subsw2t.meta
subsw2t.epic
subsw2t.asc.gz
subsw2t.asc
3
subsw3t.meta
subsw3t.epic
subsw3t.asc.gz
subsw3t.asc


Last updated: April 9, 2008