Metadata from CMDAC Accession 596

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:       2509 meters
Seafloor depth:         2569 meters
Times:                  starts 04 Jul 1988, ends 29 Jun 1989
Time increment:         60 minutes
Instrument type:        Aanderaa RCM5


  parameter         min     mean      max       sd     days

speed (cm/sec)      1.49    17.28    56.38    10.31    359.8
dir (deg true)      0.00   229.45   359.62    59.08    359.8
u (cm/sec)        -49.77   -11.11    24.13    11.53    359.8
v (cm/sec)        -51.51    -6.84    31.05    10.10    359.8
temp (deg C)        0.62     1.26     2.23     0.26    359.8


The speed series of this record contains several spikes that
appear to be instrument errors. CMDAC has prepared an alternate
version of the file in which the spikes have been smoothed by
linear interpolation. Both versions of the file are available
on this disk.

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