Metadata from Accession 9625

Experiment name:        Fram Strait
Principal Investigator: E.Fahrbach/G.Rohardt/U.Schauer
Affiliation:            Alfred Wegener Inst.
Mooring name:           F8-11
Mooring position:       78.833 deg N,   2.799 deg E
Instrument depth:       2425 meters
Seafloor depth:         2457 meters
Times:                  1200 11 Jul 2010 to 0600 27 Jun 2011
Time increment:         120 minutes
Instrument type:        unavailable


  parameter          min     mean      max    stddev    days

speed (cm/sec)       0.00     5.00    33.79    6.14    350.83
dir (deg true)       0.00   270.00   359.74   66.64    350.83
u (cm/sec)         -27.43    -3.59     9.17    5.24    350.83
v (cm/sec)         -13.70     1.83    24.99    4.36    350.83
temp (deg C)        -0.82    -0.77    -0.76    0.02    350.83


Speed is zero in lines 778 through 2734 (0600 14 Sep 2010 through
0600 24 Feb 2011). Was this caused by an instrument failure or were
the currents really below threshold for more than 4 months?

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