4002 meters at ICM3 Mooring 12

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Metadata and Statistics

Experiment name:        ICM3
Principal Investigator: W.D.Nowlin/R.D.Pillsbury/B.Warren/T.Whitworth   
PI's affiliation:       TAMU/OSU/WHOI/TAMU      
Mooring Name:           Mooring 12              
Mooring position:       19.998 deg S,   73.326 deg E
Instrument depth:       4002 meters
Seafloor depth:         4883 meters
Times:                  starts 14 May 1995, ends 27 Jan 1997
Time increment:         30 minutes
Instrument type:        Aanderaa RCM8           

 
  parameter         min     mean      max       sd     days

speed (cm/sec)      0.93     1.43     9.15     1.03    623.5
dir (deg true)      0.21   192.87   359.86   102.62    623.5
u (cm/sec)         -7.69    -0.39     6.02     1.31    623.5
v (cm/sec)         -8.23    -0.03     6.01     1.11    623.5
temp (deg C)        1.39     1.40     1.43     0.01    623.5
pressure (db)    4078.05  4080.13  4090.36     3.10    623.5
 

Approximately 78% (!) of the speeds recorded by this meter were
below the instrument's threshold and have been set to 0.93 cm/sec
(half the threshold).