Metadata from Accession 666


Experiment name:        not available
Principal Investigator: not available
PI's affiliation:       Scottish Mar Bio Assn
Mooring Name:           not available
Mooring position:       57.508 deg N,   12.253 deg W
Instrument depth:       1745 meters
Seafloor depth:         1810 meters
Times:                  starts 11 Apr 1981, ends 14 Oct 1981
Time increment:         30 minutes
Instrument type:        Aanderaa


  parameter         min     mean      max       sd     days

speed (cm/sec)      0.00    15.93    51.00     7.63    185.7
dir (deg true)      0.00   180.15   359.00   106.40    185.7
u (cm/sec)        -34.39    -0.17    50.88    11.63    185.7
v (cm/sec)        -40.69    -0.11    36.18    13.29    185.7
temp (deg C)        3.33     3.62     4.12     0.12    185.7


This record contains two gaps in speed. The first extends from
2115 28 Aug 81 through 0615 2 Sep 81, and the second from 0215
6 Sep 81 through 1545 13 Sep 81. Direction is present throughout
as a separate series, as is temperature. 

This record was made with an Aanderaa current meter. The nominal
speed threshhold of this meter is 1.5 cm/sec, and a common practice
is to set below-threshhold speeds either to the threshhold value
or to half the threshhold. In this case, however, below-threshhold
speeds were set to zero by the originating PI, as were concurrent
directions. In processing historical data we normally reset below-
threshhold Aanderaa speeds to half the threshhold, but have not
done so in this case because the direction information has been
lost. 

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