4836 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:       4836 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     6.25    25.82     3.30    599.8
dir (deg true)      0.00   186.29   359.64   106.36    599.8
u (cm/sec)        -18.66     0.00    18.90     4.90    599.8
v (cm/sec)        -22.09     0.25    20.21     5.09    599.8
temp (deg C)        0.97     1.00     1.05     0.01    599.8


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).