Experiment name: STACS-11 Principal Investigator: T.Lee/W.Johns PI's affiliation: RSMAS Mooring Name: Mooring 262 Mooring position: 5.294 deg N, 46.811 deg W Instrument depth: 160 meters Seafloor depth: 3421 meters Times: starts 08 Sep 1989, ends 22 Jan 1991 Time increment: 720 minutes Instrument type: VACM parameter min mean max sd days speed (cm/sec) 4.63 49.62 109.99 25.72 501.5 dir (deg true) 1.65 163.46 359.62 85.32 501.5 u (cm/sec) -92.83 11.32 102.93 40.82 501.5 v (cm/sec) -96.94 -9.79 90.33 35.11 501.5 temp (deg C) 10.06 16.42 25.36 3.82 501.5 RSMAS states that the "compass and vane follower stuck most of the time; direction is questionable." CMDAC notes, however, that a plot of direction from this instrument, and one from the current meter below it at 310 m, are not dissimilar.
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