Experiment name: Iceland-Faroe Overflow (ACM8) Principal Investigator: P.Saunders PI's affiliation: Inst. Oceanog. Sci. (UK) Mooring Name: 505 (E) Mooring position: 62.440 deg N, 16.471 deg W Instrument depth: 2046 meters Seafloor depth: 2056 meters Times: starts 15 Jul 1990, ends 22 Aug 1991 Time increment: 60 minutes Instrument type: Aanderaa RCM5 parameter min mean max sd days speed (cm/sec) 4.50 19.28 53.38 7.86 403.6 dir (deg true) 0.27 259.28 359.94 71.50 403.6 u (cm/sec) -53.28 -13.80 32.15 11.22 403.6 v (cm/sec) -32.74 3.27 35.82 10.33 403.6 temp (deg C) 1.41 2.51 3.33 0.31 403.6 A few speed spikes appear toward the end of this record. These appear to be instrument errors. CMDAC has prepared an alternate file in which 7 spikes during June, July, and August 1991 have been removed by linear interpolation. They are at lines 8494, 8786, 8820, 8892, 9010, 9305, and 9576. Both versions of the record are available on this disk.
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