Metadata and plots from OSU Buoy Group Accession 4666

Experiment name: AnSlope 2003-04 Principal Investigator: A.L.Gordon/A.Orsi/R.D.Pillsbury PI's affiliation: LDEO/TAMU/OSU Mooring Name: West B-1 Mooring position: 71.970 deg S, 172.757 deg E Instrument depth: 632 meters Seafloor depth: 1025 meters Times: starts 06 Mar 2003, ends 26 Feb 2004 Time increment: 30 minutes Instrument type: Aanderaa RCM8s parameter min mean max sd days speed (cm/sec) 0.92 49.22 163.39 39.21 357.9 dir (deg true) 0.07 263.00 359.70 73.20 295.6 u (cm/sec) -139.58 -36.89 23.07 36.53 295.6 v (cm/sec) -58.18 9.18 132.63 31.23 295.6 temp (deg C) -1.78 0.68 1.22 0.41 357.9 pressure (db) 639.60 707.91 1015.10 92.68 357.9 The speed series shows some signs of the behavior observed in the record from the Aanderaa above this one on the mooring: irregular temporary slowing during times of highest speed - which we think might be caused by tilting of the Savonius rotor during mooring blowover. The maximum recorded pressure (1015.1 decibars on 15 July 2003) puts this instrument very near the seafloor, which has a depth of 1025 meters. The compass failed after line 14188 (1530 26 Dec 2003). The instrument's clock was running 13 minutes 12 seconds slow at recovery.

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