Acoustic Doppler current profiler velocity data from the Southern Ocean JGOFS Antarctic Polar Frontal Zone cruises on R/V Roger Revelle

Processing by: S. D. Pierce

College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University

Velocity sections and vector maps:

• APFZ Survey cruise I, Oct-Nov 1997
• APFZ Process study cruise I, Nov-Dec 1997
• APFZ Survey cruise II, Jan-Feb 1998
• APFZ Process study cruise II, Feb-Mar 1998

COAS data reports (pdf):

• Pierce, S. D., J. A. Barth, and T. J. Cowles (1999) Acoustic Doppler current profiler observations during the JGOFS AESOPS Antarctic Polar Front Surveys I and II: R/V Revelle cruises from 20-Oct to 23-Nov 1997 and 9-Jan to 7-Feb 1998, COAS Data Report 175, 99-4, 50 pp.

• Pierce, S. D., J. A. Barth, and T. J. Cowles (1999) Acoustic Doppler current profiler observations during the JGOFS AESOPS Antarctic Polar Front Process Studies I and II: R/V Revelle cruises from 30-Nov-97 to 3-Jan-98 and 13-Feb-98 to 19-Mar-98, COAS Data Report 176, 99-5, 135 pp.

These data sets are publicly available, with full details, from the NODC Joint Archive for ADCP data.

Funding for this research supported by the National Science Foundation through Grant OPP-9530758.