M3 hourly data set documentation

This data set contains observations from MBARI OASIS mooring M3. Each variable from each deployment has been gridded to a common hourly time axes. A simple averager (Ferret's AVE) is used to put all of the data onto the same hourly time axis.
ADCP data are gridded in depth to a common regular axis between 5 and 500 meters with an bin interval of 5 meters. The Tstring data are gridded in depth at levels 1,10,20,40,60,80,100,150,200,250,300,350. For both depth gridding the Ferret LIN was used.
The data in this data set are available via DODS at
http://dods.mbari.org/cgi-bin/nph-nc/data/OASISdata/netcdf/hourlyM3.nc

and through the DODS html form mechanism:
http://dods.mbari.org/cgi-bin/nph-nc/data/OASISdata/netcdf/hourlyM3.nc.html

Below are the Ferret scripts (and their output) that produced this file from the original deployment data sets (which are also available via DODS). Because the DODS URLs are used, these GO scripts can be run from any Internet connected computer that has Ferret version 5.22 or higher installed.

Summary plots of all the variables in this data set.

M3 Hourly Initialization: 24-MAR-1998 00:00 to 08-MAR-2000 00:00

		Ferret GO script and output
Global	Initialization script required to create continuous time series for the above time period. The following scripts append with real data.	initM3Vars.jnl initM3Vars.out

M3 Deployment 199803: 24-MAR-1998 00:00 to 18-MAR-1999 00:00

Instrument	DODS link to original data file	Ferret GO script and output
ADCP	m3_adcp_19980324_workhorse.nc.html 24-MAR-1998 12:00 to 09-MAR-1999 22:00	hour_m3_adcp_19980324_workhorse.jnl hour_m3_adcp_19980324_workhorse.out
ADCP	m3_adcp_19990309_workhorse.nc.html 09-MAR-1999 23:13 to 12-MAR-1999 20:43	hour_m3_adcp_19990309_workhorse.jnl hour_m3_adcp_19990309_workhorse.out
ADCP	m3_adcp_19990312_workhorse.nc.html 12-MAR-1999 22:37 to 17-MAR-1999 22:27	hour_m3_adcp_19990312_workhorse.jnl hour_m3_adcp_19990312_workhorse.out
Metsys	m3_metsys_19980325.nc.html 25-MAR-1998 02:07 to 17-MAR-1999 15:19	hour_m3_metsys_19980325.jnl hour_m3_metsys_19980325.out
Tstring	m3_tstring_19980325.nc.html 25-MAR-1998 01:44 to 17-MAR-1999 23:34	hour_m3_tstring_19980325.jnl hour_m3_tstring_19980325.out

M3 Deployment 199905: 18-MAR-1999 00:00 to 08-MAR-2000 00:00

Instrument	DODS link to original data file	Ferret GO script and output
ADCP	m3_adcp_19990317_workhorse.nc.html 17-MAR-1999 22:38 to 11-MAY-1999 22:08	hour_m3_adcp_19990317_workhorse.jnl hour_m3_adcp_19990317_workhorse.out
ADCP	m3_adcp_19990512_workhorse.nc.html 12-MAY-1999 02:00 to 19-DEC-1999 04:00	hour_m3_adcp_19990512_workhorse.jnl hour_m3_adcp_19990512_workhorse.out
Metsys	m3_metsys_19990317.nc.html 17-MAR-1999 16:00 to 07-MAR-2000 13:57	hour_m3_metsys_19990317.jnl hour_m3_metsys_19990317.out
Tstring	m3_tstring_19990317.nc.html 17-MAR-1999 23:44 to 07-MAR-2000 14:14	hour_m3_tstring_19990317.jnl hour_m3_tstring_19990317.out

The above .jnl files, executed by ferret at the command line in the order they appear:

ferret -memsize 20.0 -script initM3Vars.jnl 
ferret -memsize 20.0 -script hour_m3_adcp_19980324_workhorse.jnl 
ferret -memsize 20.0 -script hour_m3_adcp_19990309_workhorse.jnl 
ferret -memsize 20.0 -script hour_m3_adcp_19990312_workhorse.jnl 
ferret -memsize 20.0 -script hour_m3_metsys_19980325.jnl 
ferret -memsize 20.0 -script hour_m3_tstring_19980325.jnl 
ferret -memsize 20.0 -script hour_m3_adcp_19990317_workhorse.jnl 
ferret -memsize 20.0 -script hour_m3_adcp_19990512_workhorse.jnl 
ferret -memsize 20.0 -script hour_m3_metsys_19990317.jnl 
ferret -memsize 20.0 -script hour_m3_tstring_19990317.jnl

will create the hourlyM3.nc file referenced in the DODS url above.

Please see OASIS Deployment Data Regridding Examples for examples of the regridding transforms used for these data.

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