Experiment name: Vitiaz Str Trnsp (PCM15) Principal Investigator: S.Murray PI's affiliation: Louisiana State Univ. Mooring Name: M3 Mooring position: 6.073 deg S, 147.843 deg E Instrument depth: 598 meters Seafloor depth: 1130 meters Times: starts 26 Jul 1992, ends 17 Mar 1993 Time increment: 60 minutes Instrument type: Aanderaa RCM parameter min mean max sd days speed (cm/sec) 1.08 31.76 66.14 12.12 234.7 dir (deg true) 4.97 304.09 359.03 27.17 234.7 u (cm/sec) -63.50 -25.17 14.20 10.89 234.7 v (cm/sec) -23.00 18.42 45.40 8.01 234.7 pressure (db) 603.50 627.26 673.40 12.43 234.7 There is some spikiness in the direction series of this record that probably is due to instrument error. Most of the direction spikes are isolated values near 269 degrees true and 290 degrees true, indicating a tendency for the current meter's compass to stick at these two points. CMDAC has prepared an alternate version of the file in which many of these spikes, and a few others, have been removed by linear interpolation. Both the original file and the alternate version are available on this disk.
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