5080 meters at Samoa Mooring 5

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Metadata and Statistics

Experiment name:        Samoa Passage (PCM11)
Principal Investigator: D.Rudnick/R.D.Pillsbury
PI's affiliation:       SIO/OSU
Mooring Name:           SAMOA 5
Mooring position:       10.085 deg S,  169.245 deg W
Instrument depth:       5080 meters
Seafloor depth:         5245 meters
Times:                  starts 20 Sep 1992, ends 25 Feb 1994
Time increment:         60 minutes
Instrument type:        Aanderaa RCM8


  parameter         min     mean      max       sd     days

speed (cm/sec)      0.93     4.49    15.75     2.02    523.0
dir (deg true)      0.00   117.39   358.99   108.86    523.0
u (cm/sec)         -6.85     1.78    11.02     2.50    523.0
v (cm/sec)         -8.15     2.05    14.86     3.26    523.0
temp (deg C)        1.09     1.10     1.10     0.00    523.0