Abstract:
The Continental Slope Experiment (CONSLEX) was a collaborative
exercise between the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon
Laboratory; Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory; Dunstaffnage Marine
Laboratory; Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department; and
the Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food; designed to study
water movements across the Scottish continental slope.
The
... experiment ran from August/September 1982 to February/March
1983. The deployments, mainly current meter moorings, were made along
a set of lines defined thus:
Line Position Number of
moorings
P 51deg 41N, 15deg 26W to 51deg 41N, 14deg 55W 4
A 57deg 18N, 09deg 53W to 57deg 23N, 08deg 30W 9
B 58deg 11N, 09deg 57W to 57deg 57N, 08deg 50W 7
C 59deg 11N, 07deg 43W to 59deg 00N, 07deg 22W 6
D 59deg 46N, 06deg 16W to 59deg 37N, 05deg 58W 4
E 60deg 31N, 05deg 00W to 60deg 05N, 04deg 29W 5
F 61deg 27N, 02deg 13W to 61deg 08N, 01deg 33W 6
G 63deg 07N, 00deg 00W to 61deg 30N, 00deg 00W 6
Bottom mounted pressure gauges were deployed at either end of lines
A-G and four temporary tide gauges were installed from Sligo (Ireland)
to Shetland. The current meter temperature sensors were supplemented
by three thermistor chain deployments.
The data set comprises current meter series, pressure records and
thermistor chain series.
[This summary was derived from the BODC WWW pages.] 
