4515 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:       4515 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     5.55    22.66     3.18    596.2
dir (deg true)      0.17   189.14   359.83   121.90    596.2
u (cm/sec)        -16.63    -0.54    12.49     3.01    596.2
v (cm/sec)        -15.73     1.28    21.89     5.46    596.2
temp (deg C)        0.96     0.99     1.07     0.01    596.2
 

Approximately 13% 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).