Metadata from Accession 8682


Experiment name:        MOVE
Principal Investigator: U.Send
Affiliation:            UCSD
Mooring name:           MOVE 1
Mooring position:       15.324 deg N,  51.526 deg W
Instrument depth:       4171 meters
Seafloor depth:         5086 meters
Times:                  0500 10 Jan 2001 to 1100 28 Jan 2002
Time increment:         120 minutes
Instrument type:        Aanderaa RCM 8


  parameter          min     mean      max    stddev    days

speed (cm/sec)       0.00     4.60    16.79    3.76    383.33
dir (deg true)       0.00   229.86   359.65  111.34    383.33
u (cm/sec)         -14.40    -0.55     9.77    2.71    383.33
v (cm/sec)         -13.53     0.14    16.79    5.25    383.33
temp (deg C)         2.02     2.12     2.19    0.03    383.33
pressure (db)     4239.71  4240.63  4243.06    0.45    383.33


About 24% of the directions in this file are equal to 343.550
degrees. These directions occur when the recorded speed is zero,
i.e., when the actual current speed is below the instrument's
threshold. Thus these directions are evidently the result of
an equipment malfuntion or peculiarity and are not actual.
Note that most of the other MOVE instruments did record meaningful
directions when the recorded speed was zero.

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