Catalogue PIGMA
Array of Ocean Bottom Tilt Current Meters: data from the EMSO-Azores observatory, 2022-2023
This dataset contains current data acquired between june 2022 and July 2023 using 5 TCM-3 Ocean Bottom Tilt Current Meters installed next to the Tour Eiffel, hydrothermal vent site and near the SeaMon west station. The TCM-3 Ocean Bottom Tilt Current Meter from Lowell Instruments LLC (North Falmouth, MA, USA) measures current using the drag-tilt principle. The logger is buoyant and is anchored to the bottom via a short flexible tether. Drag from moving water tilts the logger in the direction of flow. The logger’s accelerometer and magnetometer channels are used to record the amount of tilt and direction of tilt (compass bearing). The currentmeter's internal clocks are set to UTC time before deployment. Clock drift after recovery is not implemented in data but added as metadata in the meta data file.
Data are provided for each deployed instrument as two text files:
- current data
- temperature data
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2024-05-13
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-05-16
- Other citation details
- Cannat Mathilde, Gayet Nicolas, Demont Antoine, Fontaine Fabrice, Matabos Marjolaine, Sarradin Pierre-Marie (2024). Array of Ocean Bottom Tilt Current Meters: data from the EMSO-Azores observatory, 2022-2023. SEANOE. https://doi.org/10.17882/100007
- Theme
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- Mid-Atlantic Ridge
- EMSO-Azores
- EMSO
- Hydrothermal Vents
- Lucky Strike
- Eiffel Tower
- Crystal
- Montsegur
- current velocity
- current direction
- near seafloor seawater temperature
- Time-series
- MoMARSAT2022
- MoMARSAT2023.
- Physical oceanography
- Use limitation
- CC-BY (Creative Commons - Attribution)
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- EMSO data are published without any warranty, express or implied. The user assumes all risk arising from his/her use of EMSO data. EMSO data are intended to be research-quality and include estimates of data quality and accuracy, but it is possible that these estimates or the data themselves contain errors. It is the sole responsibility of the user to assess if the data are appropriate for his/her use, and to interpret the data, data quality, and data accuracy accordingly. EMSO welcomes users to ask questions and report problems to the contact addresses listed in the data files or on the EMSO web page.
- Date (Publication)
- 2024
- Unique resource identifier
- 10.17882/101802
- Association Type
- Cross reference
- Initiative Type
- dataset
- Date (Publication)
- 2022
- Unique resource identifier
- 10.17882/91238
- Association Type
- Cross reference
- Initiative Type
- dataset
- Date (Publication)
- 2021
- Unique resource identifier
- 10.17882/76001
- Association Type
- Cross reference
- Initiative Type
- dataset
- Date (Publication)
- 2020
- Unique resource identifier
- 10.17882/74378
- Association Type
- Cross reference
- Initiative Type
- dataset
- Date (Publication)
- 2018
- Unique resource identifier
- 10.17882/57005
- Association Type
- Cross reference
- Initiative Type
- dataset
- Date (Publication)
- 2017
- Unique resource identifier
- 10.17882/74195
- Association Type
- Cross reference
- Initiative Type
- dataset
- Unique resource identifier
- 10.17600/18001914
- Association Type
- Cross reference
- Initiative Type
- Platform
- Metadata language
- English
- Topic category
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- Oceans
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- Begin date
- 2022-06-20
- End date
- 2023-07-22
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- OnLine resource
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metadata - 47 KB
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metadata - 47 KB
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Raw data
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data - 37 MB
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Quality controlled data
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TCM3-2_2022 - 6 MB
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TCM3-3_2022 - 7 MB
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TCM3-B_2022 - 7 MB
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TCM3-C_2022 - 6 MB
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TCM3-D_2022 - 7 MB
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- DOI of the product ( DOI )
- OnLine resource
- Seanoe ( rel-canonical )
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
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Parameters
- temperature (°C)
- current velocity (m/s)
- current direction (° from magnetic N)
Location
- Regional node: Emso-Azores
- Site: Lucky Strike hydrothermal field
- coordinates: see meta data file
Installation Cruise: SARRADIN Pierre-Marie and MATABOS, Marjolaine, MOMARSAT2022 cruise, Pourquoi Pas?, https://doi.org/10.17600/18001914
Recovery Cruise: MATABOS Marjolaine (2023) MoMARSAT2023 cruise, RV L'Atalante, https://doi.org/10.17600/18002419
Operating parameters For deployments near selected hydrothermal vents at the EMSO-Azores observatory, the accelerometer and magnetometer are configured with a burst interval of 1 minute, a burst rate of 8 Hz and a burst duration of 15 seconds. Temperature are recorded with a period of 1 minute.
Sensor metadata
- The specifications of the magnetometer, accelerometer and temperature probes are as follows:
- magnetometer: 3-axis magnetoresistive sensor and 12-bit A/D Converter, range +/- 1.3 Gauss, accuracy +/- 1° typical (nominal compass bearing), resolution < 0.001 Gauss, maximum recording rate 64 Hz, measurement duration 6 mS
- accelerometer: 3-axis MEMS Accelerometer and 10-bit A/D Converter, software averaging: up to 32 values per measurement (25 samples per measurement are averaged when recording at 64 Hz), range +/- 2 g, accuracy < 0.01 g (enables 1° inclination determination), resolution < 0.001 g, maximum recording rate 64 Hz, measurement duration 0.625 ms per sample, 32 samples per recorded value (15.6 ms total sample time at 64 Hz 20 ms at 32 Hz or less)
- thermistor: NTC Thermistor and 16-bit A/D Converter, low-pass filter rejects 50/60 Hz noise, range -5 to 30 °C (standard), -20 to 50 °C (extended), accuracy +/-0.1 °C (standard), +/-0.2 °C (extended), resolution < 0.01 °C, maximum rate 1 Hz, time constant 4 minutes typical (when plunged into an ice bath).
Sensor setup
Test and calibration A set of calibration coefficients for the magnetometer, accelerometer, and temperature channels are stored in the logger. The magnetometer and accelerometer coefficients are unique to each instrument while temperature coefficients are specific to each manufacturing lot. The calibration coefficients are applied upon recovery when the binary data is converted to text data. Data is provided as text, and not corrected for the time drift. Time drift is provided as metadata in meta data file.
Data management
- Real time data transmission: No
- Data storage in the Communication and storage unit (COSTOF2): No
- Data storage in the instrument: Full
- File identifier
- seanoe:100007 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-05-16
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
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