PIRATA-FR18 leg2 onboard L'Antea
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08/09/2008 to 22/09/2008
SADCP OS75
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*Processing software:
version 6.2beta CASCADE
from *STA files (data every 2 minutes)

*Parameters used in CASCADE

reference layer: bins 5 to 8


Vertical velocity error threshold :  100
Maximum vertical shear :   0.2
Number of profil to consider before and after each profil :   20
number of standard deviation :   3
Detection of the bottom :  Bathy
V max (cm/s) : 400
correlation threshold    60


Correcting from barotropic tide


Impose empty records for periods without measurement > 5 minutes


Bathymetry used : Etopo18
Tide : Model_tpx07.2
Misalignment : -0.5
Pitch : 0
Amplitude : 1
Mean vertical velocity for good data : 24.360 cm/s (value >1cm/s but it is not recommended to correct for OceanSurveyor SADCP)
Number of averaged ensemble : 33
Number of cells : 766720


Horizontally and vertically smoothed. Flag 1 only. --> file: fr18_leg2_fhv1.nc


Correlation between the ship's velocity and the parallel and orthognoal component of absolute velocity to the ship's velocity:
Parallel component : min max correlation : -0.013  0.314   
Orthogonal component : min max correlation:  -0.330 -0.006

Flags attributed :
flag1 : 638030 83.22 %
flag2 : 33249  4.34 %
flag3 : 0   0 %
flag4 : 0   0 %
flag5 : 0   0 %
flag6 : 0   0 %
flag7 : 95441 12.45 %
flag8 : 0   0 %
flag9 :  0   0 %