3485 meters at ICM3 Mooring 3

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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 3
Mooring position:       20.001 deg S,   50.334 deg E
Instrument depth:       3485 meters
Seafloor depth:         4615 meters
Times:                  starts 31 May 1995, ends 17 Jan 1997
Time increment:         30 minutes
Instrument type:        Aanderaa RCM8           

 
  parameter         min     mean      max       sd     days

speed (cm/sec)      0.93     6.18    24.96     3.62    596.2
dir (deg true)      0.00   163.75   359.64    91.36    596.2
u (cm/sec)        -19.10     0.88    24.54     4.58    596.2
v (cm/sec)        -17.84    -1.66    14.57     5.17    596.2
temp (deg C)        1.37     1.62     1.82     0.08    596.2
pressure (db)    3494.95  3543.67  3597.65    34.63    596.2
 

Approximately 10% 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). 

There appears to be a problem with the pressure record from this
meter, which shows a decrease of about 60 db over 5 days in early
April 1996. Pressure then remains at the lower level. This drop in
pressure is not seen in the record from the instrument above this
one. It is difficult to account for except as sensor drift.