Metadata from Accession 1750

Experiment name:        ACM12 (Deep Basin)
Principal Investigator: W.Zenk
PI's affiliation:       IFM-Kiel
Mooring Name:           BM/334
Mooring position:       27.985 deg S,   46.338 deg W
Instrument depth:       1430 meters
Seafloor depth:         2187 meters
Times:                  starts 03 Jan 1991, ends 26 Nov 1992
Time increment:         120 minutes
Instrument type:        Aanderaa RCM8           


  parameter         min     mean      max       sd     days

speed (cm/sec)      0.99     7.04    35.97     5.40    693.8
dir (deg true)      0.00   194.69   359.75    85.09    693.8
u (cm/sec)        -26.62    -1.27    25.92     4.79    693.8
v (cm/sec)        -31.58    -2.92    19.61     6.76    693.8
temp (deg C)        3.08     3.50     3.83     0.11    693.8


Blowover of this mooring was substantial. (See the comments on
the two upper current meters of the mooring.) 

Approximately 19% of the speeds in this record were at or below
the instrument's threshold. These speeds have been set to 1
cm/sec. 

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