Gc. Hays et Aj. Warner, CONSISTENCY OF TOWING SPEED AND SAMPLING DEPTH FOR THE CONTINUOUS PLANKTON RECORDER, Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 73(4), 1993, pp. 967-970
The mean annual towing speed of the Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR)
varied systematically between 1946 and 1991. By mounting a pressure t
ransducer on the CPR to record towing depth, it was shown, however, th
at changes in towing speed did not cause a significant change in towin
g depth, although the mean towing depth (6.7 m, SD = 1.7 m, N = 77) wa
s shallower than the previously assumed towing depth of 10 m. Thus the
observed changes in towing speed are unlikely to have caused disconti
nuities in the CPR time-series by affecting sampling depth.