4709 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:       4709 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     6.40    30.72     3.98    597.5
dir (deg true)      0.19   177.37   359.81   113.98    597.5
u (cm/sec)        -15.41    -0.01    14.23     3.57    597.5
v (cm/sec)        -29.86     0.10    18.96     6.64    597.5
temp (deg C)        0.97     1.00     1.05     0.01    597.5
 

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).