Metadata and plots from OSU Buoy Group Accession 4651

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: 677 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 74.76 12.09 310.0 dir (deg true) 0.00 172.24 359.97 112.19 340.1 u (cm/sec) -47.46 -2.94 59.56 13.95 310.0 v (cm/sec) -57.26 0.75 69.95 17.03 310.0 temp (deg C) 0.31 0.95 1.27 0.08 340.1 pressure (db) 668.60 687.95 914.80 27.13 340.1 This record contains a number of extended episodes in which speed appears to be below threshold. On recovery, the meter's Savonius rotor did not turn freely. It is thus likely that the below-threshold episodes were caused by a stiff rotor. These portions of the speed record have been removed from the file. It is possible that some of the remaining speeds, especially those toward the end of the record, are lower than than they should be. Five below-threshold episodes were removed: lines 11598 - 11820 (1400 21 Nov 03 - 0500 26 Nov 03) lines 12224 - 12642 (1500 04 Dec 03 - 0800 13 Dec 03) lines 12903 - 13275 (1830 18 Dec 03 - 1230 26 Dec 03) lines 13512 - 14404 (1100 31 Dec 03 - 0100 19 Jan 04) lines 14883 - end (0030 29 Jan 03 - 0100 28 Feb 04) Direction is present and good throughout the record.

The axes of the PVD are labelled in kilometers. Boxes mark the beginning of each month.
This figure includes only the first 242 days of the current record. Note that at this scale
the tidal energy is apparent.

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