3996 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:       3996 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     7.27    37.35     4.38    599.7
dir (deg true)      0.17   188.19   359.83   105.72    599.7
u (cm/sec)        -22.15    -0.25    23.23     5.26    599.7
v (cm/sec)        -26.56     0.08    36.03     6.66    599.7
temp (deg C)        1.16     1.29     1.42     0.03    599.7 

Approximately 8% 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).