/adcp-glider-guide

Unofficial guide to the ADCP glider SG637 Omura

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DOI License: GPL v3

Seaglider Nortek 1MHz AD2CP unofficial guide

This an unofficial guide to bench testing, deploying and analysing the data from a Nortek AD2CP integrated onto a Seaglider.

This guide is based solely on the author's experience as a PhD student tasked with working on an ADCP glider without any documentation. This does not constitute official or qualified advice and the author takes no responsibility for any damage that may occur from following these instructions.

For competent advice contact Nortek, Hydroid Seaglider Division and the National Marine Facility

Contents of this repo

  • Unofficial manual for testing and operating the AD2CP glider (mardown and pdf versions in manual). Or read it on github here
  • Links to Nortek manuals and software for the Signature 1000 instrument on which the glider AD2CP is based (in the manual)
  • Bash and python scripts for interpreting the data quality snippet files returned by the glider (in tele_file_parsers)

This work is licensed under GPLv3 (see LICENSE.txt)