In addition to the daily Florida Current volume transport estimates made using the voltage measurements on the
telephone cable, this project collects several other types of data for calibration and/or augmentation purposes. Specifically, the project collects:
Daily Florida Current volume transport estimates from the cable voltages
Vertical-mean horizontal velocity measurements using dropsonde floats
Full-depth temperature profile measurements using expendable bathythermograph (XBT) probes
Full-depth horizontal velocity measurements using lowered acoustic Doppler current profilers (LADCP)
Full-depth temperature, salinity and dissolved oxygen profile measurements using a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) package
Upper-ocean continuous horizontal velocity measurements using a shipboard acoustic Doppler current profiler (SADCP)
Aside from the cable-voltage observations, these data sets are either collected on one-day cruises with small vessels (dropsonde, XBT), or
on two-day cruises on the R/V F.G. Walton Smith (CTD, LADCP, SADCP). The small-vessel cruises generally occur up to ten times per year, while
the R/V F.G. Walton Smith cruises usually occur four to six times per year.
All of these data are available either via this web page or by request from the project managers. For the benefit of users of these data sets, annual
reports detailing the observations collected during each calendar year are being produced and posted on this web page. These reports also explain
in more detail where the data sets can be obtained. Reports are being added to this web page as they are completed and published.