Archived data

Data Processing

The processing software was conceived specifically to process data from IOEBs, employing basic processing functions in individual modules designed for expandability to handle future systems requirements. Input files of ARGOS hexadecimal data is processed by dividing the location, or buoy drift data, from the sensor data, and treating each set separately, for each buoy. The location data consists of ARGOS quality 2 or 3 positions from each PTT on a particular IOEB, which are subsequently screened, interpolated, and combined with similarly processed locations from the other PTT, and further smoothed with a 6-hr triangular filter to produce an hourly timeseries with a standard error we calculated to be ~150 m. The sensor data is prefiltered, combined, adjusted for buoy drift, and screened with a Gaussian first difference filter to produce unevenly spaced timeseries of each environmental or physical variable measured by the IOEB. Every variable is output to a unique file per year, per buoy consisting of a two-column timeseries. This format allows for easy data exchange, and facilitates visual output using the GMT-SYSTEM plotting tools. A full description of the processing scheme, a description of field operations, and plots of the data are available in WHOI Technical Report 99-12.

Output data availability

Data files are available in zip formats. Click on the links to the right of the page to download complete yearly archives for each IOEB.