3485 meters at ICM3 Mooring 5

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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 5               
Mooring position:       19.989 deg S,   51.633 deg E
Instrument depth:       3485 meters
Seafloor depth:         4928 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     4.50    11.44     2.47     42.8
dir (deg true)      0.17   195.70   359.83    98.93    598.4
u (cm/sec)         -5.94    -0.25     5.82     1.98     42.8
v (cm/sec)        -11.39    -1.93     9.72     4.32     42.8
temp (deg C)        1.56     1.66     1.76     0.04    598.4
 

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).  Speed ends at line 2055, 1900 12 Jul 95 (about
43 days after deployment). Direction is present throughout. 

This instrument carried a pressure sensor. The pressure record
suggests a depth of about 4000 meters for the current meter,
which clearly is wrong. The pressure series is not useful and
has not been retained.  (The fault may be with the calibration
rather than the raw data.)