Experiment name: MOVE Principal Investigator: U.Send Affiliation: UCSD Mooring name: MOVE 2 Mooring position: 15.983 deg N, 56.933 deg W Instrument depth: 4904 meters Seafloor depth: 4993 meters Times: 2200 28 Feb 2004 to 0800 02 May 2005 Time increment: 120 minutes Instrument type: Aanderaa RCM 8 parameter min mean max stddev days speed (cm/sec) 0.00 3.44 15.34 2.80 311.83 dir (deg true) 0.60 219.56 359.55 90.02 428.50 u (cm/sec) -14.50 -1.92 8.98 3.03 311.75 v (cm/sec) -10.67 0.46 9.72 2.58 311.75 temp (deg C) 1.90 2.05 2.19 0.05 428.50 pressure (db) 4973.75 4974.64 4980.43 0.67 428.50 About 21% of the speeds were below the instrument's threshold and have been set to zero. The final 116 days of the speed record contains only zeros. This may be a true reflection of below threshold currents, or it may indicate a sensor failure. In any case that portion of the speed record is not useful and we have removed it.
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