3493 meters at ICM3 Mooring 6

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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 6               
Mooring position:       20.000 deg S,   52.517 deg E
Instrument depth:       3493 meters
Seafloor depth:         4936 meters
Times:                  starts 30 May 1995, ends 19 Jan 1997
Time increment:         30 minutes
Instrument type:        Aanderaa RCM8           

 
  parameter         min     mean      max       sd     days

speed (cm/sec)      0.93     6.78    19.20     3.14    599.8
dir (deg true)      0.19   188.29   359.81   107.36    599.8
u (cm/sec)        -13.75    -0.57    16.03     4.35    599.8
v (cm/sec)        -17.73     0.12    19.01     6.05    599.8
temp (deg C)        1.51     1.63     1.73     0.03    599.8
 

Approximately 4% 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).