Experiment name: FASINEX Principal Investigator: R.A.Weller/K.Brink Affiliation: WHOI Mooring name: F4 (WHOI 846) Mooring position: 27.089 deg N, 69.838 deg W Instrument depth: 10 meters Seafloor depth: 5482 meters Times: 0332 17 Jan 1986 to 1502 15 Jun 1986 Time increment: 30 minutes Instrument type: VMCM parameter min mean max stddev days speed (cm/sec) 0.13 23.62 84.49 16.29 125.85 dir (deg true) 0.01 167.78 359.97 118.18 125.85 u (cm/sec) -58.03 2.62 83.53 21.10 125.85 v (cm/sec) -40.13 8.35 80.21 17.36 125.85 temp (deg C) 23.24 24.10 26.50 0.61 149.50 WHOI's processing notes for this mooring state that the VACM at 20 meters had a sticky compass, but an examination of the data indicates that perhaps the 10 meter instrument was meant. At 10 meters, both speed and direction are degraded badly after 22 May 1986 and we have terminated the record at that point. At 20 meters, the directions appear reasonable throughout and are similar to those recorded at 30 meters.
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