4828 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:       4828 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     6.15    23.23     3.56    598.4
dir (deg true)      0.17   196.73   359.83   103.16    598.4
u (cm/sec)        -12.40    -0.61    17.71     3.92    598.4
v (cm/sec)        -23.19    -0.33    19.20     5.88    598.4
temp (deg C)        0.98     1.02     1.07     0.01    598.4
 

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).