Metadata from Accession 1764

Experiment name:        ACM12 (Deep Basin)
Principal Investigator: W.Zenk
PI's affiliation:       IFM-Kiel
Mooring Name:           VE/338                  
Mooring position:       31.137 deg S,   39.433 deg W
Instrument depth:       2900 meters
Seafloor depth:         4675 meters
Times:                  starts 12 Jan 1991, ends 05 Dec 1992
Time increment:         120 minutes
Instrument type:        Aanderaa RCM8           


  parameter         min     mean      max       sd     days

speed (cm/sec)      0.99     4.56    22.89     3.97    694.0
dir (deg true)      0.00   178.90   359.82    82.80    694.0
u (cm/sec)         -9.82     1.08    13.95     3.38    694.0
v (cm/sec)        -22.03    -2.28    12.97     4.33    694.0
temp (deg C)        2.97     3.12     3.26     0.05    694.0


There are many, many linear interpolations in speed and direction,
some of them quite long - apparently to remove bad data. A low-pass
filtered version of this file would be more useful than the original.
About 15% of the speeds were below the instrument's threshold,
and have been set to 1 cm/sec. 

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