3999 meters at ICM3 Mooring 4

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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 4               
Mooring position:       19.980 deg S,   50.815 deg E
Instrument depth:       3999 meters
Seafloor depth:         4809 meters
Times:                  starts 31 May 1995, ends 18 Jan 1997
Time increment:         30 minutes
Instrument type:        Aanderaa RCM8           

 
  parameter         min     mean      max       sd     days

speed (cm/sec)      0.93     5.82    24.67     3.68    597.5
dir (deg true)      0.16   179.05   359.84   109.84    597.5
u (cm/sec)        -10.64    -0.09    18.33     3.35    597.5
v (cm/sec)        -24.45    -0.35    16.04     6.01    597.5
temp (deg C)        1.09     1.22     1.53     0.06    597.5
 

Approximately 12% 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).