3871 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:       3871 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     5.28    27.55     3.80    596.1
dir (deg true)      0.00   144.09   359.64   114.69    596.1
u (cm/sec)        -14.50     0.87    20.07     3.20    596.1
v (cm/sec)        -27.24     1.66    26.94     5.35    596.1
temp (deg C)        0.96     1.13     1.41     0.05    596.1
 

Approximately 18% 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).