PIRATA-FR18 leg3 onboard L'Antea
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22/09/2008 to 06/10/2008
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


flag suspect data between ensemble 
1362 to 1488
7430 to 7586
8100 to 8541 


Bathymetry used : Etopo18
Tide : Model_tpx07.2
Misalignment : 0
Pitch : 0
Amplitude : 1
Mean vertical velocity for good data : 15.559 cm/s (value >1cm/s but it is not recommended to correct for OceanSurveyor SADCP)
Number of averaged ensemble : 30
Number of cells : 684080


Horizontally and vertically smoothed. Flag 1 only. --> file: fr18_leg3_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 : -0.590  0.025 
Orthogonal component : min max correlation:  -0.435  0.185

Flags attributed :
flag1 : 559254 81.75 %
flag2 : 14282  2.09 %
flag3 : 0   0 %
flag4 : 0   0 %
flag5 : 0   0 %
flag6 : 0   0 %
flag7 : 110544 16.16 %
flag8 : 0   0 %
flag9 :  0   0 %