Metadata and plots from OSU Buoy Group Accession 4644

Experiment name: AnSlope 2003-04 Principal Investigator: A.L.Gordon/A.Orsi/R.D.Pillsbury PI's affiliation: LDEO/TAMU/OSU Mooring Name: Central D-1 Mooring position: 71.981 deg S, 173.191 deg E Instrument depth: 508 meters Seafloor depth: 1118 meters Times: starts 02 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 28.44 147.12 22.81 362.1 dir (deg true) 0.23 239.63 359.85 60.64 362.1 u (cm/sec) -137.50 -21.64 47.60 23.39 362.1 v (cm/sec) -78.02 -4.08 116.32 17.23 362.1 temp (deg C) -0.34 1.00 1.30 0.17 362.1 pressure (db) 512.10 545.85 728.80 50.38 362.1 There are numerous high-speed episodes where the pressure record tops out at a raw value of 1018. This value (1018 in this instance, rather than 1023) evidently indicates that pressure is offscale. See, for example, mid-June 2003 and late October through early November 2003. In addition, the pressure record is increasingly noisy after mid-January 2004. This appears to be a sensor failure.

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

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