Metadata and plots from OSU Buoy Group Accession 4638

Experiment name: AnSlope 2003-04 Principal Investigator: A.L.Gordon/A.Orsi/R.D.Pillsbury PI's affiliation: LDEO/TAMU/OSU Mooring Name: Central C-1 Mooring position: 72.031 deg S, 173.093 deg E Instrument depth: 551 meters Seafloor depth: 651 meters Times: starts 03 Mar 2003, ends 27 Feb 2004 Time increment: 30 minutes Instrument type: Aanderaa RCM8s parameter min mean max sd days speed (cm/sec) 0.92 67.99 164.56 38.01 361.8 dir (deg true) 0.10 251.12 359.82 92.88 361.8 u (cm/sec) -138.16 -42.25 49.42 37.23 361.8 v (cm/sec) -94.27 24.23 146.18 48.05 361.8 temp (deg C) -1.90 0.17 1.07 0.45 361.8 pressure (db) 552.30 570.39 627.60 16.09 361.8 The recorded minimum pressure decreased by about 7 db during the course of the experiment. The pressure record was somewhat spikey; most of the spikes have been removed. The instrument's clock was running 18 minutes 17 seconds slow at recovery.

The axes of the PVD are labelled in kilometers. Boxes mark the beginning of each month.

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