Metadata and Statistics

Experiment name:        Samoa Passage (PCM11)
Principal Investigator: D.Rudnick/R.D.Pillsbury
PI's affiliation:       SIO/OSU
Mooring Name:           SAMOA 1
Mooring position:        9.685 deg S,  170.469 deg W
Instrument depth:       2990 meters
Seafloor depth:         4343 meters
Times:                  starts 23 Sep 1992, ends 24 Feb 1994
Time increment:         60 minutes
Instrument type:        Aanderaa RCM8


  parameter         min     mean      max       sd     days

speed (cm/sec)      0.93     4.43    14.89     2.01    519.6
dir (deg true)      0.00   169.47   358.99    90.87    519.6
u (cm/sec)         -8.56     0.78    11.56     3.10    519.6
v (cm/sec)        -13.14    -1.14    10.17     3.49    519.6
temp (deg C)        1.61     1.67     1.71     0.01    519.6


Although this current meter recorded pressure, the pressure
sensor failed, and its data have not been included here.