Metadata from Accession 9815

Experiment name:        Fram Strait
Principal Investigator: A.Beszczynska-Muller
Affiliation:            Alfred Wegener Inst.
Mooring name:           F16-1
Mooring position:       78.835 deg N,   0.400 deg E
Instrument depth:       56   meters
Seafloor depth:         2519 meters
Times:                  1200 12 Aug 2002 to 0600 28 Sep 2003
Time increment:         120 minutes
Instrument type:        Aanderaa RCM


  parameter          min     mean      max    stddev    days

speed (cm/sec)       1.76    20.43    60.83   10.73    411.83
dir (deg true)       0.70   256.42   359.90   80.27    411.83
u (cm/sec)         -55.65   -13.65    32.48   13.27    411.83
v (cm/sec)         -37.53     4.10    47.83   12.39    411.83
temp (deg C)        -1.84     2.44     5.54    1.61    411.83
pressure (db)       56.70    74.29   317.30   30.88    411.83


During September 2002 there are a few runs of temperature
equal to 5.544 degrees. This is also the global maximum
temperature, and probably is the sensor's upper limit rather
than the true water temperature at those times.

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