Experiment name: Denmark Str Ovfl (ACM8) Principal Investigator: R.Dickson PI's affiliation: MAFF Mooring Name: 8805 Mooring position: 63.118 deg N, 35.542 deg W Instrument depth: 1895 meters Seafloor depth: 2569 meters Times: starts 04 Jul 1988, ends 09 Jun 1989 Time increment: 60 minutes Instrument type: Aanderaa RCM5 parameter min mean max sd days speed (cm/sec) 1.49 11.92 51.71 7.67 184.5 dir (deg true) 0.00 175.59 359.00 105.64 340.5 u (cm/sec) -28.34 -1.68 40.44 9.99 184.5 v (cm/sec) -31.92 0.92 51.66 9.87 184.5 temp (deg C) 2.93 3.36 3.48 0.06 340.5 MAFF has noted that speeds in this record were at or near threshhold in three places: lines 2131 through 2830 (0537 1 Oct 88 through 0837 30 Oct 88), lines 3747 through 3798 (1337 7 Dec 88 through 1637 9 Dec 88), and from line 4429 through the end of the file (2337 4 Jan 88 onward). These episodes almost certainly are due to a sensor malfunction and have not been included here, nor were they used in calculating the statistics shown here. Direction is available for the entire deployment, however. From early November onward the speed series is somewhat spikey and contains unusual sequences of highs and lows. CMDAC believes these data should be used with caution, and has prepared an alternate file in which the least credible speed spikes, together with a few anomalous directions, have been smoothed by linear interpolation. The speed series remains questionable after mid-November, however. Both the original file and the alternate version are available on this disk.
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