Metadata from Accession 559


Experiment name:        not available
Principal Investigator: R.Dickson
PI's affiliation:       MAFF Lowestoft
Mooring Name:           79-08
Mooring position:       47.227 deg N,   12.213 deg W
Instrument depth:       4701 meters
Seafloor depth:         4751 meters
Times:                  starts 26 Jun 1979, ends 12 Jun 1980
Time increment:         60 minutes
Instrument type:        Aanderaa RCM4


  parameter         min     mean      max       sd     days

speed (cm/sec)      1.50     3.99    13.10     2.09    352.8
dir (deg true)      0.00   191.72   359.43   108.57    352.8
u (cm/sec)        -10.20    -0.33    11.10     3.30    352.8
v (cm/sec)        -11.80     0.40    12.30     3.02    352.8


There is evidence of a sticky compass or perhaps encoder in the
direction series, particularly on 1 Dec 1979. 

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