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Title: Deep ocean CTD data 2011-2013 from the Aloha Cabled Observatory (NODC Accession 0123115)
Abstract: The ALOHA Cabled Observatory (ACO) is a system of hardware and software that
extends electric power and the Internet offshore, supporting sustained
real-time observations in the deep ocean. The ACO is connected to Oahu, Hawaii
by the HAW-4 telecommunications cable transferred to the project by AT&T in
2007. On June 6th, 2011, the ACO was deployed on the ocean bottom (depth ~ 5
kilometers - 3 miles) near Station ALOHA , 100 kilometers (60 nautical miles)
north of Oahu, Hawaii. Station ALOHA is the site of the long-term Hawaii Ocean
Time-series (HOT) open ocean measurement program, visited by research vessels
10-12 times each year since October 1988.

There are five modules that are connected together on the seafloor. The
Junction Box is connected to the HAW-4 cable and to the Observatory module.
Together, they supply 1200 watts of power and 100 Megabits per second of
Ethernet communications to sensor systems on these two modules, and to the
other three modules. The other modules are the Camera tripod, the AMM bottom
node, and the TAAM mooring. Sensors provide live video of the ocean bottom
around the ACO, sound from local and distant sources, currents, pressure,
temperature, and salinity.

This data set contains the rapidly sampled CTD data from a SeaBird SBE-37
Microcat during 2011-2013. The initial sampling rate was 1 minute, and
it was changed to 1 second on June 27th, 2011, and to 2 seconds on December
28th, 2011. Salinities were calculated using the UNESCO routines. Currents
from ADCP are available separately. The project is ongoing with data from
2014- to become available.
Date received: 20140212
Start date: 20110613
End date: 20131231
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West boundary: -158.0062
East boundary: -158.0062
North boundary: 22.73873
South boundary: 22.73873
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Metadata version: 4
Keydate: 2014-11-03 21:27:06+00
Editdate: 2014-11-03 21:38:34+00