Metadata from CMDAC Accession 2507

Experiment name:        ACM8 (Denmark Str Ovfl)
Principal Investigator: R.Dickson
PI's affiliation:       CEFAS
Mooring Name:           9603
Mooring position:       63.487 deg N,   36.278 deg W
Instrument depth:       1849 meters
Seafloor depth:         1949 meters
Times:                  starts 11 Dec 1996, ends 30 Jul 1997
Time increment:         60 minutes
Instrument type:        Aanderaa RCM8


  parameter         min     mean      max       sd     days

speed (cm/sec)      1.50    26.89    77.36    12.47    230.8
dir (deg true)      1.41   241.67   359.72    42.95    230.8
u (cm/sec)        -70.88   -21.66    29.82    14.68    230.8
v (cm/sec)        -43.57    -8.93    25.31    10.69    230.8
temp (deg C)        1.02     2.03     3.00     0.37    230.8
pressure (db)    1850.70  1873.77  1894.40     4.93    230.8


Accessions 2507 (this one) and 2508 are from the same current
meter record. Apparently the meter stopped for 42 minutes on
30 July 1997 and then restarted. One record was lost, and the
time base changed. Because of the change of time base (the
measurements in Accession 2507 lie 30 minutes after the hour,
and those in Accession 2508 lie 17 minutes after the hour) the
record has been processed as two files. 

A comment by CEFAS: The pressure sensor records 1876 db at the
start of the series, approximating to a depth of 1849 m. This
is in excellent agreement with the expected meter height of 100
m in a water depth of 1949 m. The pressure estimates decrease
near the end of the series from 1869 db on 14/7/97 to a minimum
of 1851 db. This corresponds to a decrease in bit value of only
3 and may be an indication of a power problem (the clock appears
to have stopped shortly after this). At the start of the
complementary series [Accession 2508] a few hours later, the
pressure recording is 1876 db. 

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