Experiment name: Denmark Str Ovfl (ACM8) Principal Investigator: R.Dickson PI's affiliation: MAFF Mooring Name: 8807 Mooring position: 62.653 deg N, 34.515 deg W Instrument depth: 2052 meters Seafloor depth: 2827 meters Times: starts 04 Jul 1988, ends 28 Jun 1989 Time increment: 60 minutes Instrument type: Aanderaa RCM5 parameter min mean max sd days speed (cm/sec) 1.49 7.14 25.39 4.52 359.0 dir (deg true) 0.00 182.61 359.93 88.81 359.0 u (cm/sec) -18.29 -0.47 24.80 6.38 359.0 v (cm/sec) -21.60 -1.40 22.03 5.34 359.0 temp (deg C) 3.17 3.36 3.59 0.05 359.0 MAFF comments that the record seems OK, although many (19%) speeds were at threshhold. According to the recovery log, the rotor turned freely. (CMDAC notes here that threshhold speeds, if in error, often are caused by a failure of the reed switch that counts rotor turns, rather than by the rotor seizing.) CMDAC has prepared an alternate version of this file in which a few direction spikes and speed spikes, apparently caused by instrument errors, have been smoothed by linear interpolation. Both the original and value-added versions of the file are available on this disk.
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