Experiment name: MOVE Principal Investigator: U.Send Affiliation: UCSD Mooring name: MOVE 1 Mooring position: 15.324 deg N, 51.526 deg W Instrument depth: 4547 meters Seafloor depth: 5086 meters Times: 0700 28 Jan 2000 to 0900 02 Jan 2001 Time increment: 120 minutes Instrument type: Aanderaa RCM 8 parameter min mean max stddev days speed (cm/sec) 0.00 7.46 30.16 5.35 340.17 dir (deg true) 0.00 252.87 359.65 133.87 340.17 u (cm/sec) -23.55 -1.98 8.13 3.77 340.17 v (cm/sec) -8.79 6.15 27.91 5.33 340.17 temp (deg C) 1.85 1.94 2.03 0.03 340.17 pressure (db) 4618.52 4620.23 4629.10 1.01 340.17 As with all the files in this set, speed contains many zero values that presumably indicate times when the current was below the instrument's stall speed. What is peculiar is that direction is set at 343.55 degrees during these episodes, which together amount to about 12.7 % of the file and are evidently the result of an instrument malfunction. Note that most of the other MOVE instruments did record meaningful directions when the recorded speed was zero.
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