How to process mooring data? A cookbook for MicroCat, ADCP and RCM data.

Abstract

This data report summarizes the processing steps that have been undertaken to cali- brate/process the physical data (temperature, salinity, currents) collected at three moor- ing sites in the Northeast Atlantic within the EU FP5 Project - ANIMATE. The goal of the data processing is to provide a consistent quality controlled data set. The data set should contain so called ’metadata’ that allow to verify the processing steps that has been performed to convert the raw data to the processed data. The calibration of other than physical data collected at the sites will be reported else- where. The physical sensors, the data measured and derived parameters addressed in this report are: MicroCAT Temperature,conductivity,(someinstruments:pressure),salinity TD-Logger Temperature, pressure ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler) Currents, depth of the instrument RCM (Rotor Current Meters) Currents, (some instruments: temperature, pressure)