M4 hourly data set documentation

This data set contains observations from MBARI OASIS mooring M4. 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/hourlyM4.nc

and through the DODS html form mechanism:
http://dods.mbari.org/cgi-bin/nph-nc/data/OASISdata/netcdf/hourlyM4.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.

M4 Hourly Initialization: 24-AUG-1999 00:00 to 08-SEP-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.	initM4Vars.jnl initM4Vars.out

M4 Deployment 199908: 24-AUG-1999 00:00 to 08-SEP-2000 00:00

Instrument	DODS link to original data file	Ferret GO script and output
ADCP	m4_adcp_19990824_workhorse.nc.html 25-AUG-1999 01:00 to 21-MAY-2000 12:00	hour_m4_adcp_19990824_workhorse.jnl hour_m4_adcp_19990824_workhorse.out
Metsys	m4_metsys_19990824.nc.html 24-AUG-1999 21:51 to 07-SEP-2000 15:39	hour_m4_metsys_19990824.jnl hour_m4_metsys_19990824.out
Tstring	m4_tstring_19990824.nc.html 24-AUG-1999 22:50 to 07-SEP-2000 20:00	hour_m4_tstring_19990824.jnl hour_m4_tstring_19990824.out

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

ferret -memsize 20.0 -script initM4Vars.jnl 
ferret -memsize 20.0 -script hour_m4_adcp_19990824_workhorse.jnl 
ferret -memsize 20.0 -script hour_m4_metsys_19990824.jnl 
ferret -memsize 20.0 -script hour_m4_tstring_19990824.jnl

will create the hourlyM4.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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