2505 meters at ICM3 Mooring 2

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Metadata and Statistics

Experiment name:        ICM3
Principal Investigator: W.D.Nowlin/R.D.Pillsbury/T.Whitworth           
PI's affiliation:       TAMU/OSU/TAMU
Mooring Name:           Mooring 2
Mooring position:       20.000 deg S,   49.785 deg E
Instrument depth:       2505 meters
Seafloor depth:         3971 meters
Times:                  starts 01 Jun 1995, ends 17 Jan 1997
Time increment:         30 minutes
Instrument type:        Aanderaa RCM8           

 
  parameter         min     mean      max       sd     days

speed (cm/sec)      0.93     6.26    28.71     4.41    324.1
dir (deg true)      0.21   185.76   359.86    88.46    596.1
u (cm/sec)        -14.14     0.69    17.80     4.30    324.1
v (cm/sec)        -27.69    -2.26    12.58     5.87    324.1
temp (deg C)        1.98     2.10     2.30     0.06    596.1
pressure (db)    2538.24  2543.04  2549.72     1.74    596.1
 

The speed series of this record ends early, on 20 Apr 96.
Direction is present throughout, however. 

Approximately 17% 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).