Metadata from CMDAC Accession 4211

Experiment name:        SCM2
Principal Investigator: E.Fahrbach
PI's affiliation:       Alfred Wegener Inst.
Mooring Name:           AWI230-1
Mooring position:       66.003 deg S,    0.158 deg E
Instrument depth:       3406 meters
Seafloor depth:         3471 meters
Times:                  starts 19 Apr 1996, ends 27 Oct 1997
Time increment:         60 minutes
Instrument type:        Falmouth 3D-ACM


  parameter         min     mean      max       sd     days

speed (cm/sec)      0.20     9.43    16.40     1.40    555.4
dir (deg true)      0.10   199.45   359.98   111.95    555.4
u (cm/sec)        -14.10    -1.44    13.18     6.38    555.4
v (cm/sec)        -16.39     1.06    12.90     6.86    555.4
w (cm/sec)        -14.60    -8.86     3.49     1.41    555.4
temp (deg C)       -0.35    -0.29    -0.25     0.01    555.4
pressure (db)    3439.90  3445.37  3452.30     3.04    555.4
salinity (psu)     34.65    34.66    34.66     0.00    555.4


This file's horizontal velocities (u and v) begin late in the file
at line 2122 (0300 17 Jul 96). Vertical velocity begins somewhat
later at line 5475 (2000 3 Dec 96). In addition, the horizontal
velocity components contain many lengthy linear interpolations to
replace bad data. 

Pressure drifts lower throughout the record, indicating either
that the mooring line stretched or (more likely) that the response
of the pressure sensor changed in situ. 

The velocity interpolations are somewhat crude. CMDAC has prepared
an alternate version of the file in which these linear interpolations
have been replaced with predictive interpolations, which are liklier
to approximate ground truth. Both versions of the file are available
on this disk.  

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