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: 4171 meters Seafloor depth: 5086 meters Times: 0500 10 Jan 2001 to 1100 28 Jan 2002 Time increment: 120 minutes Instrument type: Aanderaa RCM 8 parameter min mean max stddev days speed (cm/sec) 0.00 4.60 16.79 3.76 383.33 dir (deg true) 0.00 229.86 359.65 111.34 383.33 u (cm/sec) -14.40 -0.55 9.77 2.71 383.33 v (cm/sec) -13.53 0.14 16.79 5.25 383.33 temp (deg C) 2.02 2.12 2.19 0.03 383.33 pressure (db) 4239.71 4240.63 4243.06 0.45 383.33 About 24% of the directions in this file are equal to 343.550 degrees. These directions occur when the recorded speed is zero, i.e., when the actual current speed is below the instrument's threshold. Thus these directions are evidently the result of an equipment malfuntion or peculiarity and are not actual. Note that most of the other MOVE instruments did record meaningful directions when the recorded speed was zero.
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