Metadata from CMDAC Accession 604

Experiment name:        Denmark Str Ovfl (ACM8)
Principal Investigator: R.Dickson
PI's affiliation:       MAFF
Mooring Name:           8808
Mooring position:       62.237 deg N,   33.810 deg W
Instrument depth:       2857 meters
Seafloor depth:         2917 meters
Times:                  starts 05 Jul 1988, ends 26 Mar 1989
Time increment:         60 minutes
Instrument type:        Aanderaa RCM5


  parameter         min     mean      max       sd     days

speed (cm/sec)      1.49     9.41    30.06     4.99    263.8
dir (deg true)      0.00   151.64   359.97    95.20    263.8
u (cm/sec)        -28.89     2.47    25.76     7.70    263.8
v (cm/sec)        -23.13    -0.26    24.83     6.92    263.8


The direction series of this record is quite noisy. Many of the
spikes appear to be instrument errors. CMDAC has prepared an alternate
file in which numerous direction anomalies have been smoothed by linear
interpolation. Both versions of the record are available on this disk.

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