Metadata and plots from OSU Buoy Group Accession 4650

Experiment name: AnSlope 2003-04 Principal Investigator: A.L.Gordon/A.Orsi/R.D.Pillsbury PI's affiliation: LDEO/TAMU/OSU Mooring Name: Central E-2 Mooring position: 71.914 deg S, 173.211 deg E Instrument depth: 461 meters Seafloor depth: 1772 meters Times: starts 24 Mar 2003, ends 28 Feb 2004 Time increment: 30 minutes Instrument type: Aanderaa RCM8s parameter min mean max sd days speed (cm/sec) 0.92 18.64 82.61 12.40 340.1 dir (deg true) 0.19 199.42 359.93 113.05 340.1 u (cm/sec) -54.00 -6.01 70.81 13.19 340.1 v (cm/sec) -76.75 1.79 61.23 16.98 340.1 temp (deg C) 0.43 1.06 1.30 0.07 340.1 pressure (db) 465.30 483.69 733.00 30.20 340.1 The speed series contains two possible dropouts. The first is in lines 386 through 451 (0000 2 Apr 03 through 0830 3 Apr 03). The second is in lines 1767 through 1794 (1830 30 Apr 03 through 0800 1 May 03). However, both of these occur during times of generally low speeds which include nearby short episodes of below-threshold speed. In addition, in both instances the pressure record is flat, without any sign of high speed. Because these two events are questionable as speed dropouts they have not been bridged or altered in any way. The pressure sensor went offscale briefly on 26 Nov 03. The instrument's clock was running 10 minutes 18 seconds slow at recovery.

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

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