Metadata from CMDAC Accession 1449

Experiment name:        ACM8 (German component)
Principal Investigator: J.Meincke/E.Mittelstaedt                        
PI's affiliation:       B.S.H.Hamburg           
Mooring Name:           B1
Mooring position:       59.000 deg N,   32.808 deg W
Instrument depth:       1996 meters
Seafloor depth:         2110 meters
Times:                  starts 08 Sep 1991, ends 05 Sep 1992
Time increment:         60 minutes
Instrument type:        Aanderaa RCM8


  parameter         min     mean      max       sd     days

speed (cm/sec)      0.01     4.00    29.87     5.04    362.4
dir (deg true)      0.07   145.72   359.73   125.69    362.4
u (cm/sec)        -21.36     0.79    22.72     3.71    362.4
v (cm/sec)        -23.82     1.82    28.61     4.87    362.4
temp (deg C)        3.11     3.29     3.45     0.07    362.4


Approximately 41% of the speeds in this record were below the
current meter's threshold and have been set to 0.01 cm/sec. (The
speeds were set to a nonzero value so that direction information
would be preserved in u and v. For the most part, current records
in this component of ACM-8 contain u and v but not speed or direction.
Hence, in order to preserve direction without expicitly including
a time series of directions, BSH has elected to represent below-threshold
speeds as 0.01 cm/sec, encoded in u and v. This is true for
all the current records in the German portion of ACM-8.)
 

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